What strange frequency does Manicanparty exist on? Not an easy question to answer. With singer/songwriter Jessica Corazza overlaying obscure references on top of ethereal imagery – and of producer Patrick Morrissey’s endless interventions – the group seems to create their world anew with each song they add to their site.
Just check out the intensely chanted gymnastics of ‘Monarch,’ and you’ll wonder if a new tribe has formed somewhere in Brooklyn, and you’re the last to know about it. Latest track ‘Animal’ – a Miike Snow Cover – takes the Brooklyn duo one step further. You will most likely find it impossible not to fall in love with Jessica as she takes on all manner of shapes and suggestions in the track’s just-released video. Animal, human or otherwise, this is a band that beams all of its music down to Brooklyn from another place entirely.
Manicanparty played BMI’s New Music Seminar’s showcase at the Gramercy Theater yesterday (June 19) – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)