Party Girl - Album

Maneuvering Between Grandiose Retro Motifs And A Surprising Sincerity Michelle’s Songs Are Tragicomic Melody-Driven Sentimental And Suspended In Shadowy Glamour. Her Story Began When Her Bedroom-Produced Debut Album Party Girl 2007 By Some Fateful Unknown Hand Was Delivered To The Land Of Her Forefathers And Soon Made Its Way Blaring From The Yachts Of Russian Billionaires And As The Ringtones Of Mothers All Over The Ukraine. The Daughter Of A Kirov Ballerina And An Engineer From Leningrad Michelle Grew Up Listening To Her Parents’ Collection Of Soviet And 70’s European Records. Her Music Has Drawn Comparisons To Nico And Leonard Cohen Soviet Era Singing Stars Such As Early Alla Pugacheva With A Voice Akin To Tanita Tikaram. Decadent Dramatic And Earnest Vintage Keyboards And Synth Strings Offer The Solitary Rendition Of A Grand Experience And The Voice Always Upfront Delivers Motifs Familiar Yet Impossible To Pinpoint From The Great Soup Of European Chanson. Michelle’s Move From Toronto To Berlin Marked A Major Turning Point Most Notably As A Live Act From Playing Smaller Shows In Toronto To Regularly Selling Out Concerts Of 500-1000 Guests In Cities Like Istanbul Bucharest Paris Zagreb Berlin Athens Vilnius And Moscow. While Her Concerts Include More Live Aspects And A Line-Up Of Musicians All Three Of Her Albums Have Been Recorded In The Same Bedroom Manner Maintaining An Intimacy And Singleness Of Expression From Her Bedroom To Yours. A Genre Based Partly On Elements Of Melody And Style But Moreso A Signature Fatalist-Celebratory Approach To Songwriting. read less