Maria Minerva - Kyrie Eleison
With two albums out on Not Not Fun and an EP on 100% Silk out already this year, Estonian artist Maria Minerva is set to release even more this year. The ‘Sacred And Profane Love’ EP, on 100% Silk, is already out as a download and will be physically released in the next couple of weeks.
It’s closest in sound to her previous 100% Silk release, the ‘Noble Savage’ EP, another EP of syrupy dancefloor material. However, progression is clear. While that last release generally leaned towards the feathery sounds of nu-disco, ‘A Sacred And Profane Love’ is more varied. It begins with A Love So Strong, a loose and swaying track carried along on an oddly beguiling detuned vocal, moving into the more insistent Kyrie Eleison (Greek for “Lord have mercy”), it’s 4/4 pulse bathed in shiny noise. Gloria naively coos it’s way along, and then there’s Another Time & Place, a very different beast to anything she’s done before, with it’s brittle Middle Eastern percussion and clean analogue lines. We’ve heard a lot from Maria Minerva this year it’s true, but ‘A Sacred And Profane Love’ is as smart as anything else she’s done, and offers plenty of reasons to keep listening.
100% Silk will release Maria Minerva’s ‘Sacred And Profane Love’ EP
