KR-51 (2012)

"In case you're wondering, a KR-51 is a vintage German motor scooter; Clare Manchon-Muldaur and her band, incl. husband/musical companion Olivier Manchon, spent some time in Berlin, writing and recording their third album. While Clare and her bandmates have always approached their pop music with an artful and baroque perspective, "KR-51" feels more European in its lush orchestrations and moody melodic structures, and Clare's vocals are at once more melodramatic and better controlled than on her previous recordings, as if Kate Bush gave up on English mysticism and discovered Europop with no loss in her emotional force. The trio is joined by a 23-piece orchestra and drummer James McAlister for these sessions, and KR-51 was conceived and executed on a grand scale; the songs are rooted in pop and the more playful byways of art rock, but the instrumental backdrops sound nearly operatic, or like the soundtrack to some grand but deeply personal cinematic epic about innocents adrift in Germany." (M. Deming, Allmusic)

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