Taranta
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Album • Mar 19 / 2012 • 14 songs, 44m 23s
Folk Pop
Indie Pop
6.1
/ 10
The 28-year-old Parisian born singer-songwriter's debut LP was inspired by madness, spider bites, and the hellish melancholy of early Cat Power records.
With a stage name adapted from twist-laden, Michael Caine-starring thriller Sleuth, Mina Tindle (born Pauline de Lassus) seems keen to preserve a little mystery on debut Taranta. The singer’s cosmopolitan background – Spanish heritage, French upbringing, a musical awakening in Brooklyn – has cultivated an appealing air of disaffiliation, as she plays with a variety of semblances and freely switches tongues (mostly English, with occasional French and the odd snippet of Spanish).