Is it goth pop, vocal jazz or noise? All of it, oh well.
Lane Shi has already appeared on stage for body horror choreographer Florentina Holzinger, at the Berlin CTM Festival for adventurous music and at the Dutch Roadburn for advanced metal. Her previous releases under the name Otay:Onii, on which the interdisciplinary artist mixed theatrical goth pop and weird vocal jazz with stuttering club music or noise, were similarly difficult to classify and always sounded extreme – and used this wild mix of styles as the basis for her performance as a dramatic opera singer or a snarling fury.
Zola Jesus, Diamanda Galás, Yeule or Xiu Xiu would be suitable as references if the end result were not so peculiar and unique. This is also Love Is in the Shit, and not just because of the GG Allin memorial title and cover motif.
Over the course of the seven pieces, trip-hop beats, hyperpop elements and circus music join the grotesque sound of Otay:Onii. As bombastic as that sounds, it is full of wondrous, wonderful, beautiful moments.
