Diamanda Galas Guilty Guilty Guilty CD

2008 release, the much-anticipated collection of tragic and homicidal love songs, most of which were recorded at 'Diamanda's Valentines Day Massacre' at the Knitting Factory, New York City, February 14, 2006. Guilty Guilty Guilty is her 17th album, the first since 2003's Defixiones, Will And Testament and La Serpenta Canta. The dark queen of extended vocal techniques turns standards from Jazz, Blues, and Country music into her own musical genre. Using the full extent of her vocal arsenal and a virtuosic piano technique, Galás carves songs of doomed love into haunting works that promise to rip your heart out. Featured on the album are her much acclaimed reinterpretations of Ralph Stanley's reaper song, 'O Death'; O. V. Wright's '8 Men and 4 Women'; 'Long Black Veil' made popular by Johnny Cash; 'Time (Interlude)' sung by Timi Yuro; Tracy Nelson's 'Down So Low'; her signature rendition of 'Autumn Leaves'; and the favorite 'Heaven Have Mercy', made famous by Edith Piaf. Mute.

Diamanda Galás: Diamanda Galás.Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Her voice, stricken and strangled, could shatter glass at 20 paces. Her piano is as much battering ram as instrument of beauty."