Emiliana Torrini : To Be Free
Interesting kind of policy on the part of One Little Indian here having signed one Björk, they proceed to sign her again, but slightly taller and with a different name. ET is Icelandic and has that slightly annoying faux naif 'I...
London E1 The Spitz
If slightly unhinged cutesiness was a profession, Emiliana Torrini would be a company director. Clad in what looks like haute couture for the insane, the Italian-Icelandic pixie flaps her arms, singing about fingertips and tuna, littering...
London WC2 Borderline
It's a full house for Torrini , the unsung princess of multinational future-folk. With few supporters in the media, this Italian-Icelandic chanteuse seems to be seeping into the national psyche by stealth. Slowly but surely. Which is...
Torrini, Emiliana : Baby blue
Through the looking glass and into another dimension where Bjork is actually crap. She can't sing. She has no range. Her moving torch songs are in fact waddling poodle-haired power ballads. And instead of top-of-the-range soundscapers she uses...
Torrini, Emiliana : To be free
Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be Bjork . Only with shuffling, shivering techno-folk tunes rather than gleaming electronica. And nakedly personal lyrics rather than cryptic nursery rhymes... It can't be much fun being Emiliana...
