Karen's music merges industrial electronic beats and cinematic orchestration with a voice that sounds like it comes from the bottom of her soul. She lures you into her sonic world. Once you are there, it is difficult to escape, though you may not want to. Her deep and layered arrangements create the atmosphere for her darkly poetic lyrics making each song feel like its own epic film noir. Her new album WOMAN debuted at #20 on the college electronic music charts (CMJ RPM) on February 5, 2013 after just one week.
Karen's music was born while she was attending medical school, which was an unusual place for her to end up after receiving her degree in theater. She didn’t quite fit the mold of a medical school applicant.
Music may have saved her life during her medical training. Not literally, but it pulled her out of some very dark corners. She says, "When you are working 80-100 sleepless hours a week there is no room for expression. And you need it when surrounded by so much death and sadness". She sought solace in writing, arranging, and recording her own music.
Karen has come a long way from those days of medical training. And while she still writes and sings about the darker sides of our psyche, she has let go of a lot of the internal angst she experienced and wrote about on her first album, Animals in the Street. Her music is now an external lamentation and she approaches those darker topics with confidence and femininity. This can be heard on her new album WOMAN, which was released February 12, 2013.
Source: Karen Nielsen
Song: Ice
Album: Woman
