When Jehnny Beth sang at a gala with a gala with a lot of elegance by David Bowie, in the style of Siouxsie Sioux, quite a few thought: a world career begins here. What you don’t consider: Jehnny Beth not only claims her veneration for Bowie, she also lives. Means: The only constant is change, and she is not afraid of edges. Her band Savages has been on ice since 2017, as a solo artist she recorded film music, a duo plate with Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream and with to love is to live 2020 a solo album with cool industrial art pop.
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So now you Heartbreaker, You, were created with her eternal musical partner, the Frenchman Johnny Hostile. For those who expect people to make it a little easier for people, Beth has a stomach beat: The first track “Broken Rib” is industrial metal like from the nineties: manic whisper, heavy riffs, panic-producing noises. A song, as comfortable as a hike in short trousers through the thistle field.
And that’s just the beginning. She is not good for people, Jehnny Beth states in a songintro, and occupies it with “obsession”, mixed the tripphop in the tricky style with metal guitars and briefly flared up in an industrial inferno in the style of Ministry. The album title also appears in this song: Jehnny Beth sings you Heartbreaker, you as a cold rage angel. Warmth? None. Instead, the almost hard-hardcore of “Stop Me Now” or “High Resolution Sadness”-and in the end a piece that perfectly summarizes the posture of the album: “I See Your Pain”. An album like an imposition. David Bowie would be proud. And fan.
This review was first published in the MusikExpress 09/25.