Hi, I’m Mignon, wanna play?
Completely written and composed by the mistress of shock rockin’ show tunes
herself, Mignon is still pulling the strings on her third full-length release ‘Toys Tantrum’ …
Her box of tricks may come spewing collaborations bloody galore but as always
in true genre-shifting tradition, Mignon’s toy gun is cocked, aimed and
pointing in a new direction only she can fire…
Has it hit you yet? This is the sound of an artist youcouldn’t label or shelve, even if you dared.
Moving even further out of shot from her ‘Bad Girl’ days of metallic-tinged
electropop, Mignon has once again defied expectations to deliver a surprisingly
new and arresting sound. Armed with a Hondo she resurrected from the backyard
graves of East Berlin (heard on ‘Hands of
Time’), a waterphone (Google it kids), and a guitar bought in Austin on a
2013 USA road trip, she’s exorcising her demons with an eclectically spookish
mix of searing rock ‘n’ roll and Spaghetti Western-esque swagger.
From the feverish
60’s-fuelled shakedown of ‘Make Believe’
and frenetic burn of ‘Bulldog” to the jubilant murder march of
‘Fiesta’ and hauntingly jaunty ‘Ghost of a Memory’ (featuring the one
and only Adrian Strout of The Tiger
Lillies on the singing saw), Toys
Tantrum is a dreadfully addictive play date with one of Berlin’s best kept ‘n creepy secrets!
