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Gazelle Twin interview with Metamatic (John Foxx Official)
Metamatic - interview. January 2012 | View Article

DJ Podcast for CLASH Magazine
CLASH, (download) January 2012 | View Article

Video interview at album launch with BULLETT Magazine
BULLETT, January 2012 | View Article

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Gazelle Twin contributed words to a story alongside Brian Eno, Gary Numan, Oneohtrix Point Never, John Foxx, Anna Calvi, and many more...
The Stool Pigeon, (feature/article) December 2011 | View Article
 

'Gazelle Twin crackled like a well-stoked fire with a visual image of black Bedouin clothing illuminated by finger lights that perfectly mirrored their pulsing middle eastern electronica over which singer Elizabeth Walling purred out vocals.'
Record Collector, (Live Review, John Foxx at XOYO), December 2011 | View Full Article

'...their songs sound like Portishead having been kidnapped, time-travelled to 3029, then beamed back via hologram. It's an incredibly sacred-feeling performance which borders on having a meditational effect, and while our mystical singer howls faceless from behind her widow's mask, the two robed minions head bang in slow motion, intoxicated and doomed.'
Artrocker Magazine, (Live Review, John Foxx at XOYO), November 2011 | View Full Article
 

"For her debut album, The Entire City, a brooding, intricate journey through a crumbling dystopia, the art-rock prophet rails against, while also revelling in, entropy.""
 BULLETT Magazine (feature & interviews), Winter Issue (New York/London) | Read Web Interview | View Magazine Article
 

"...The Entire City is a striking collection that, at its best – the haunting Changelings, where she whispers and sighs into the listener’s ear like an uncomfortably forward first date; and the Glasser-in-full-flight splendour of Concrete Mother – is uncommonly captivating. It’s only the (inevitable and acceptable) referrals to wider-known artists that loosen its hold on the listener. For now, though, it’s a fine start; and when Walling’s talents fully blossom, expect a set truly worthy of five-star acclaim. The Mercury Prize panellists should probably pencil her in for 2013’s shortlist today, and use the time saved to consider some metal."
 BBC (Album Review), Mike Diver, September | View Full Article


(4 Stars) "Walling’s clear musical predecessors are the famously eclectic Kate Bush, more recently Björk and Fever Ray, with the latter perhaps also influencing the idiosyncratic costume choices. But Gazelle Twin is a fresh and exciting talent all on her own, and whilst her zany getup might be a bit too extreme for some, for many it’s a welcome contrast to all the flesh-baring contemporary pop starlets... "
 The-Fly (Live review, album launch), September 2011 | View Full Article
 

(5/5) "Walling is both star and morphing other, warping breathy harmonies and siren miasmas into elegant cyborg operas. A stunning debut"
 The Guardian (Album Review), July | View Full Article
 

(8/10) "A triumph of art-pop splendour - equal parts terror and temerity"
 NME Magazine (Album Review), July | View Full Article
 

(4/5) 'Where hop hop pioneers Shabazz Palaces envisage a dystopian future of underground militancy, covert operations and weird ghosts. Walling's album - equally a future vision - consists of weird dimensions opening up in the vortex. Warnings are whispered, sounds get swallowed then echoed, drum machines malfunction; it's essentially an ambient kind of sci-fi spiritualism, finding its film counterpart in the more philosophical moments of (that old chestnut) Blade Runner.' 
 Artrocker (Album Review), July/Aug | View Full Article
 

8/10 "fragile, understated and frightfully beautiful... crystal clear of ambition and concept"
 Drowned In Sound (Album Review), July | View Full Article
 

(5/5) 'Gazelle Twin is the alter-ego of Sussex based Elizabeth Walling, an avant-garde musician with aspirations towards mixed-media art. But it's gonna take a big, big budget for the live visuals to match the projections which The Entire City throws on to the back wall of your brain, unaided. Inspired by, variously, the stark synthpop of The Knife/Fever Ray, choral madrigals and 1980s Prince at his most spooked, this is an album which hints at subconscious fears and will haunt you long after listening.' 
 The Independent (Album Review), July | View Full Article
 

(4/5) 'Gazelle Twin’s debut album comes armed with forbidding cultural references. The Entire City takes its title from a series of Max Ernst paintings; songs pay tribute to HG Wells and 16th-century composer William Byrd. Elizabeth Walling, the Brighton-based musician behind the project, channels all this into an impressive art-rock soundtrack with brooding synths reminiscent of The Knife, dramatic percussion and eerie singing like PH Harvey at her most enigmatic and gothic.'
 Financial Times (Album Review), July | View Full Article
 

(9/10) "We very much doubt that we will hear an album this year with more emotional resonance, musical scope and singularity of expression than Gazelle Twin’s ‘The Entire City’."
 Subba Cultcha (Album Review), July | View Full Article
 

(3/5) "Elizabeth Walling, the creative force behind Gazelle Twin, has all but fashioned herself into a living artwork."
 Q Magazine (Album Review), July | View Full Article
 

 Dazed & Confused (Bjork special) Feature >
 

 CLASH Magazine 'One To Watch' Feature >
 

'Fans of shadowy electro should also hurry to familiarise themselves with the magnificent, mysterious Gazelle Twin. Created by Brighton-based Elizabeth Walling, Gazelle Twin is neither person nor fiction, and certainly nothing so crass as an alter ego. Her upcoming debut album, The Entire City, is as much of an art piece as it is an alt. pop exploration of the darker nooks of the psyche.'
 SNIPE London, June | View Full Article
 

'Imagine the absolute diametric opposite to Rebecca Black: that's Elizabeth Walling AKA Gazelle Twin. 'I Am Shell I Am Bone' is an ethereal church-like chant which is unlikely to get any radio play anywhere ever. The Joy Division over on the flip? Very similar. A feast for the ears.'
 CLASH Magazine (Single Review) June | View Full Article


(4/5) 'The follow up to last year's deliciously dark single 'Changelings' sees Elizabeth Walling (AKA Gazelle Twin) setting herself out as one of the year's brightest breakthrough talents. Although her vocals have been compared to Bjork, this single suggests Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes floating over the sinister soundscapes of fellow Brighton dwellers Esben & The Witch. eerie, ominous synths wash over distant, irregular beats, while multi-tracked vocal effects create a bizarre but alluring world steeped in gothic fairytales and mordant dread.'
 Artrocker Magazine (Single Review) June | View Full Article
 

'Brighton's Goth-electronic revolution continues apace with the second single from Elizabeth Walling, a young woman who only ever appears onstage dressed like an abject spectre from a Quay Brothers animation. "I Am Shell I Am Bone" is doomed and mournful, kind of like Fever Ray but with added thumpy layers of Mogadon industrial clatter. It doesn't sound much like anything else around and, whether you like it or not, and I do, it opens the door to intriguing possible varieties of clouded ambient gloom-pop. As if that weren't enough, she rams the point home by including an echoing spooked cover of Joy Division's "Eternal" as the B-side. Watch this one.' (THG)
 The Artsdesk, Singles & Downloads 12 | View Full Article
 

'"Gazelle Twin's haunting, captivating demos have had us in reverie for ages now: like watching someone else's escapist fantasies through a gauze, or a shroud, like Glasser in a clinch with is This Desire-era Polly Harvey. Slow, majestic, beautiful, moving. You imagine our delight, then, when this gorgeous creative soul offered to create the following feature for us: her own words, art direction, costume design and concept, drawing on her long-standing fascination with the image of the shrouded figure and Victorian spirit photography and created at a pagan festival in a remote Sardinian village..."
NOTION Magazine (4 page special feature), April 2011 | View Full Article
 

'"I Am Shell I Am Bone – the follow-up to last year's debut single, Changeling – creeps out of the speakers, all oddly pitched vocal harmonies and bass rumbles, with scatter-gun beats and an imposing sense of dread. The video – a Guardian exclusive – was filmed and edited by Walling, its black and white images of blurred faces and Sea Life setting enhancing the song's otherworldly quality.."
The Guardian (Blog), April 2011 | View Full Article
 

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'"Divinely dreamy, but freakily fractured and frankly disturbing two-minute abstraction of the Prince song from Brighton's Elizabeth Walling, that suggests Fever Ray trapped in a bathosphere with Burial."
Time Out, Track of The Week, Sharon O'Connell
 

'This Brighton electro songstress is probably already sick of the Fever Ray comparisons, but her gorgeously sparse debut single certainly occupies a similarly weird and wonderful ballpark'
The Guardian (F&M Playlist), Chris Salmon
 

'The sound of the new year is generally loud and buzzy as masses of up-and-coming musicians clamour to be crowned the next big thing. One unique talent is Gazelle Twin, aka gamine Brighton performance artist Elizabeth Walling, whose mesmerising vocal style (which has drawn comparisons to Elizabeth Fraser and Björk, but which radiates her own haunting sense of romance) and sci-fi visuals promise exciting musical adventures for 2011. The follow-up to Gazelle Twin’s excellent Changelings single is out in March, with her debut album, The Entire City, getting an official release in May. Both are due on fledgling indie label (and blog) Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records, set up with fellow Brighton musicians. It will be worth the wait – all luscious melodies, elegant electronic textures and haunting imagery. She’ll also be playing more much-awaited shows – Gazelle Twin’s dreamlike one-off date at London’s Shunt Vaults was an absolute stand-out gig of 2010; in fact,
I still think I hallucinated it.'
METRO 'Who to watch in 2011' | Read in Full
 

'Who? New queen of avant-garde electronica.
What's the story so far? Based in Brighton, Elizabeth Walling experimented with sound composition, visual art and film-making before deciding to bring all these elements together under the moniker Gazelle Twin. A true renaissance woman, she writes, sings, produces all her own music and directs and edits her own videos. Impressively, her debut single Changelings is a dark and hypnotic electro track that incorporates elements of chill-wave, choral music and symphonic electronica. Her forthcoming album The Entire City is released in March 2011 and is just as otherworldly.
Diva rating? GT resists the industry expectations of female singer-songwriters by deliberately experimenting with costumes that disguise her body and identity. She believes sexuality is fluid and hopes the act of covering her face and body will prompt people to look at gender and femininity from a different perspective.'
DIVA Magazine, Tips for 2011, Jan 2011 Issue
 

'Such wilful oddness is all to the good and the music is equally evasive and tantalising, merging arty gloom-scapes with mournful vocals. Fever Ray is the obvious reference point but it's not quite right, as the music, especially on the slightly sinister Prince cover "I Wonder U", is more like pre-fame Human League remixed by Art of Noise, albeit moodier and more ambient than either. As a debut single, it sets out a wilfully uneasy stall...'
The Artsdesk (Singles & Downloads 8) | Read in full
 

'...a wave and swath of hushed vocals and stunning, sparse instrumentation and undulating rhythms, and it sets a remarkable precedent for what's to come from Walling. Fans of an artist like Cameron Mesirow aka Glasser can find a companion in Gazelle Twin, and her excellent cover of Prince's "I Wonder U" is as much her own work as it is a work of the Minnesota musical deity..'
The Culture Of Me | Read in full
 

'Elizabeth Walling, aka Gazelle Twin is a dream weaver, a dealer in ambience. She channels the spirits of Portishead, Lamb and Fever Ray into a bewitching, beguiling brew that shivers the soul. She sounds like Enya getting in touch with her dark side.'
The Devil Has The Best Tuna | Read in full
 

'...along comes this wonderful piece of visual art by Gazelle Twin; it’s one of the most leftfield compositions I have covered this year. A solo project by Brighton-based Elizabeth Walling, it has totally mesmerised me! Not only has she produced an amazing and beautifully delicate record, Elizabeth both made and produced the accompanying short film...'
Battery In Your Leg| Read in full
 

'a focused, incredibly-constructed piece of genuine innovation.'
Music Fans Mic Blog (on 'Changelings') |  Read in full
 

'a dream-like tableau evoking Bjork, The Dirty Projectors and Vienna’s Soap & Skin as well as Andersson’s sly' gift for otherness. At times it plays like a surrealist nightmare, with teeth in all the wrong places. At times it’s softer than that. It also works as a slice of urban gothic in the manner of The Bug’s London Zoo and Liars’ Sisterworld (the album is named after one of Ernst’s paintings at Tate Modern)..
Interview with The Quietus, Alex Denney, July 2010 |  Read in full
 

'The latest talent to spring from Brighton's musical hotbed is solo artist Gazelle Twin, aka Elizabeth Walling. An accomplished classically trained composer armed with a laptop and plenty of artful vision, Walling’s latest guise occupies the darker edge of electronic pop, as beautifully evidenced by her original works, including the mesmerising, high drama symphonies of The Entire City (the title track of her upcoming album), Scavenger and Changelings. Her music comes complemented with vivid otherworldly visuals, and she makes her debut public performance in a suitably subterranean setting that is part gig, part ‘immersive audio-visual’ art installation, tomorrow. Gazelle Twin does bring to mind the dreamy vocal allure of Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), the strange beauty of Fever Ray and the edgy seduction of Siouxsie Sioux. But the Exciting thing is that there is no one exactly like her.'
METRO (One To Watch), April 2010