Meet Mónica Naranjo
I admit to having a mile-wide soft spot for pomp and bombast, so I was tickled to stumble upon the new album by Spanish super-diva Mónica Naranjo. Tarantula finds Naranjo riding absurdly huge crests of electro-orchestral fury: part Diamanda Galas, part Kylie Minogue, part Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon), part Nine Inch Nails, and all "icona gay."
A shape-shifter of the first order, Naranjo has looked like everyone from Annie Lennox to Stephanie Seymour over the years, but she's looking her best on the cover of the new album, as rendered above left by Natalie Shau. (Aside: Shau's art is unflinchingly stunning, a visual feast of surreal fantasy in the vein of Tim Burton.)
To get a taste of Mónica Naranjo's larger-than-life aesthetic, check out the video for Tarantula's first single, "Europa." ¡Viva la música dramática!
--Jason Kirk
magic bullet on August 16, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Shau's art is unflinchingly stunning, a visual feast of surreal fantasy in the vein of Tim Burton.)
Jose on December 17, 2008 at 06:24 PM
meh...guess you do have to be pompous to like this stuff.