After witch house blew up (and after becoming one of the few witch house artists worth listening to) oOoOO promptly took some time away from that crappy and toxic scene - respect points. He reemerges here in a collaborative effort with Islamiq Grrrls, a relative unknown producer/vocalist from LA. On Faminine Mystique they sling tattered witch house garb over the bones of pop tunes, to a really strange effect - some of these songs feature references to Chris Isaak, the Eagles, breakbeat, hip hop...as usual within that Scene, it's hard to tell how much of this is loving homage, irony, or pastiche. But it works pretty well. I'm not sure if each musician wrote their own lyrics but it seems to me that the tracks with Grrrls' vox feature clunkier lyrics which kind of weighs the project down, and they never truly lift off into completely uncharted avant pop territory but it's certainly a departure from "witch house typical" and definitely shows two artists trying to come up with a new kind of musical discourse, even if they aren't inventing a new language. Think Religious Knives with a more hip-hop bent and you're in the ballpark. Interesting.
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