Description:
Over the course of just a few years, Josephine Foster has captivated audiences and critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry (Born Heller), fiery psych-rock gestalt (All The Leaves Are Gone) to the voice of an outsider folk siren (Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You). The one constant is the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice and the bravery of an iconoclastic spirit. Her latest offering, A Wolf In Sheep`s Clothing, is a deeply absorbing, magical reconstruction of 19th century German art songs that float as a wash of blissed voice and electric guitar in an almost dreamlike fashion through a salon of her own invention. In music where sacred cows roam the pastures a plenty, Foster pays tribute - on her own terms - to this haunting form, and in the process somehow makes a case for German as one of the previously unknown romance languages. (Locust)
