Amanda Palmer - Who killed Amanda Palmer?

“tick tick tick tick tick” goes the clock, the clock inside this boy, who’s never had real friends except his guns, but no one recognized the signs and someday the clock struck twelve, he went to school and the next thing you see are bodies silently falling to the ground Something that sadly happened too often in the past years. Two musical counterpoints unite on this song called ‘Strength through Music’: The light piano melody and the sad chant of Amanda. But now welcome to the next level of soldier combat training with new high-tech equipment: Xboxes and Playstations on which they get prepare for the real war. But those aren’t some designed computer creatures. Those are real people that sometimes had nothing to do with the whole thing. Think about that. In her very own way, Amanda packs this serious topic up in a poppy arrangement that at first sights just won’t fit to it. The next one ‘I Have To Drive’ has become one of my favourites, a dreamy but sad piano ballad with underlined with the orchestral might of strings and choirs and if you take a look at the pictures on Amanda’s page, corresponding to the song you’ll presumably see it in a different light. ‘What’s the Use of Wond’rin’?’ to come to the next track, is a cover version, borrowed from the Broadway musical ‘Carousel’ and her chant was never more angelic than on this one. With ‘Another Year’ on which Amanda once again demonstrates her awesome skills on the piano, she says “I think I’ll wait another year” but what if there’s no other year. We’ll never know how much time is left. Was it all a complete waste of time then, waiting for something to happen, to change?

An entirely different side of AMANDA PALMER gets released, an often fragile, brittle side, but she still knows how to put the pedal to the metal of course. Personally, I really dig the numerous uses of strings. Can’t help it, I just love them. Naturally, there’s often a pinch of dark humour hidden in the lyrics, but sometimes they’re dead serious. Highly recommended release!