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Emilie Autumn - Opheliac: The Deluxe Edition

The thin line between damaged artist and commercial cynic is continually blurred...

Rating: 6

Splitting the affections of the scene’s spookykids as effortlessly as an old jar of Marmite, this enfant terrible brings her predilection for corsets and old world theatrics to her so-called victoriandustrial floorshow. Such is the emotional heft Autumn wields that many a sentimental goth can be found weeping into their glasses of absinthe over her tortured vignettes. But, alas, young Emilie has so successfully marketed herself as a commercial entity that the thin line between damaged artist and commercial cynic is continually blurred, not helped when almost all the bonus material consists of shonky remixes and a selection of live and spoken word affairs.

Giles Moorhouse