AP Track Review
VYKS is a multi-platformed artist based out of Berlin, Germany and the heavy (as hell) track Eclipse, from her debut album "lumière", is on some levels disturbing and on others quite beautifully moving. It rides between the frayed lines of alternative, experimental, heavy baroque and art rock. The ambient interpretive sounds (especially if listened in the quiet of a dark place) might even creep you out and make you turn it off until the light of day. I guess it depends on how hot your imagination runs. VYKS self produces and she is good at it. She knows what she wants to show and what shall remain hidden. On songs like Paper Planes and Breathe you can almost feel spirits emanating out of wind up music boxes. Other songs like Mute or the transforming The Day the Stars Fell Off The Sky feel sort of horror cinematic pushing industrial rock and trip hop buttons. Overall, the songs feel very understated with the gothic elements buried underground and slowly rising. Listening to "lumière"in it's totality transports your imagination to darkly wrought places that might inspire you to tell ghost stories real or imagined. I would say that the sound is also bewitching but, um, considering that VYKS lists her descriptors as songwriter, producer, singer, artist, witch... maybe I best not.
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Robb Donker
THE FACT AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
songwriter // producer // singer // artist // witch // based in berlin
NOTES:
this is the 5th song of my debut 'lumière', a deep, experimental concept album dealing with loss, pain, desperation, death and a transition. i wrote, sung and produced everything on my own and I'd deeply appreciate your support! thanks! best, VYKS
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