An accompanying letter to the fifth album of British trio Virginia Wing says it stems from processing 'highly personal emotional and mental traumas'. No lyrics are included, so as a listener you have to make do with that. But then, Muziekweb is not Boulevard. On Private Life, Virginia Wing wholesales in erratic electronic postpunk and cold wave, which is sometimes remotely reminiscent of 80s novelty
… act The Flying Lizards. That also has to do with singer Alice Merida Richards' coolly compelling declamatory voice and slightly posh accent. But although the trio from Manchester have definitely studied their fellow townspeople from Factory Records, they are definitely not a retro act. With sometimes clashing rhythms and a wide range of electronic sounds, Virginia Wing creates a world of its own in which those mysterious demons are dealt with in a contrary and sometimes frantic manner. (MR)more
