Merryn Jeann Announces Fear Of The Beauty Parlour

Fear Of The Beauty Parlour is Merryn Jeann’s second album. On the album, Jeann takes control of the production herself. The synthesizers meet iPhone recordings, while the singing is combined with found or processed sounds. The opening track Woof shows Jeann using her voice in different ways. Woof recalls the vocal experiments of CocoRosie and Jenny Hval.

On For My Lover And The Gum Trees, Jeann arranges layers of her own voice into a small choir. Amateur Radio Postcard is described as a lo-fi holiday postcard. The album also includes absurd humor, while this does not remove its sense of tenderness. Jeann does not try to hide the ways the tracks come together.

Across the album, sound, melody, rhythm, individual words, background noise and memories are separated and then brought back together.