Angel Deradoorian had not yet ventured so far into the history of pop music. Not as a singer at the Dirty Projectors on the outstanding album, please Orca (2009), and certainly not as a decisive pink, a duo project with Kate NV. “Set Me Free” is one of two preliminary couplings from Deradoorian’s new solo album Ready for Heaven, a song with greater scene-hitch opportunities, if it had only been published as a PRE albumtrack in the late sixties.
Deradoorian puts on a melody that is so full of hope, full of belief that you can improve this world that you almost want to shake yourself a bit before emotion. Ready for Heaven is not even the full -capistic work of a survival strategies, Deradoorian sees an erosion of humanity on our planet, combined with the political question: How about us if we didn’t live in a capitalist world?
Of course, these nine new songs cannot give the answer, but the artist takes the freedom to invest in sounds that do not follow any current main musical stream and generate a distance – comparable to Lizzy Mercier Descloux, on the first two albums in the early 1980s of Postpunk to extend into little developed outskirts. The “Digital Gravestone”, which Angel Deradoorian sets here, would also have fit on these records, a dark piece of Dub rock, in which Deradoorian’s voice, the sound leaves the song behind. All program with the American, the job of the producer, she prefers that of the songwriter, she says. Did this album very well.
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