Maria Minerva: Histrionic – COMPACT DISCS

2014 release, the third album from the Estonian lo-fi pop purveyor. HISTRIONIC is the first record that Minerva has produced in her new Brooklyn base, and has no doubt absorbed some of the city’s unavoidable influence. It certainly sports a pleasing melange of genres, and the record’s first single manages to sound both familiar and distinctly mysterious simultaneously. Entitled ‘The Beginning’, it’s not a million miles from Minerva’s previous material, but feels somewhat more confident. The production is still clattery, brusque and decidedly lo-fidelity, but Minerva’s coos sound better than ever.