Depending on how seriously you think hip-hop artists ought to take their on-stage personas, you may or may not be disappointed to learn that she is basically a character.
With Skinners Cage, he and his Noirchestra have taken their sound from southern-gothic Americana to something approaching a mutant hybrid of postpunk and Weimar Republic cabaret
His sweeping but resolutely laid-back sound stands on its own, a twang-tinged brand of Canadian Americana centred around his plaintively melodic vocals.
