Valet - Blood is Clean

If Eraserhead had been made in 2007, this would be the soundtrack.

Album Review by Jay Shukla | 11 May 2007
Album title: Blood is Clean
Artist: Valet
Label: Kranky
On this, her debut solo record, sometime Jackie-O Motherfucker guitarist Honey Owens has created an album of surreal, damaged beauty. Recorded at home and composed using improvised instrumentation and unorthodox vocal strategies, Blood is Clean is steeped in creeping paranoia and dreamy psychosis. Sparse percussion and a low electric hum underpin Owens' slow moans, gasps and demonic murmurs. More than an earnest exercise in weirdness, Owens creates heightened, compulsive atmospheres built around genuinely affecting vocal manipulations and succeeds in her stated aim of "channeling sounds from an unknown place." As we listen to the distant, plaintive roar of a night train punctuate the atmosphere of the title track it becomes clear: if Eraserhead had been made in 2007, this would be the soundtrack. [Jay Shukla]
Release Date: Out now. http://www.myspace.com/honeyowens