Saturday, May 18, 2013

metal mother cover story for san francisco bay guardian


Precious metal 

With the release of her dark, avant-pop sophomore album, Oakland's Metal Mother is free to pursue her primal side 

MUSIC A lot of elements needed to come together to inspire Metal Mother's new record, Ionika. You can almost picture the woman behind the sobriquet, crouching in some foggy wooded wonderland, scooping up soil and critters, ancient buried treasures of forgotten societies and precious metals. Before we get into specifics, let's slip off the mask. Metal Mother is really, mostly, the glossy coating of one delicate Oakland musician: Taara Tati [...]

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