TANYC: Tanyc (POP,Rock): review / opinion to read on Music Waves

Carmen Tannich-Wallner, who uses the stage name Tanyc, is a young Austrian singer-songwriter. For her first album, soberly titled "Tanyc", the young artist has chosen to give herself up naked, as suggested by the cover of her album.

Fans of progressive rock can identify two familiar names in the line-up: Yogi Lang and Kalle Wallner, two members of RPWL. However, this first album won't be progressive. Tanyc reveals from its first title the main lines of its aesthetics: a pop spirit mixed with atmospheric with a small folk touch. The young woman puts forward a warm voice, slightly gorged with soul, which surrounds each of her lyrics with a dramatic and mysterious aura. We enter the heart of the matter with 'Faster' with a hypnotic and somewhat anxious rhythmic which gives way to a more luminous chorus.

As the cover suggests, Tanyc goes from light to darkness, the tracks follow each other but their brightness varies. After the luminous and pop 'Smile', made for the radio, follows a more intensive track marked by the piano ('Hide Away'). What is a claimed will can however make the listening experience a little frustrating, as if the artist had not known how to dose his ideas perfectly. Thus, some rather calm tracks have only a transitory aspect like 'Loops On Fire', hardly saved by its instrumental bridge, or 'Beautiful' which bores on the duration because of its endless ending. Fortunately, the dramatic tracks have a more powerful scope. 'Again' deploys a rather threatening atmospheric paraphernalia, especially as Tanyc's voice seems to split. Oxygen seems to be lacking on 'Honest' which plays with the tensions. 'Never Ask Twice' ventures to the forefront of blues lands (with a small male/female duet). However, the stripping of the miss leaves the listener on his hunger and the 53 minutes of the album will appear somewhat long especially at the end of the album where the pieces follow one another and resemble one another.

This first album is nevertheless a good breath of air. The young Austrian artist creates dramatic climates that she magnifies with a smoky voice while seeking a balance with sunnier tracks. If the dosage is not yet perfect, the dramatic intensity of some pieces reveals us all the potential of the young woman of whom we wait for news with however less light and more darkness. - Official website

TANYC

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