Finley Clark delivered Riot Grrrl 2.0 with the siren-esque industrial pop earworm, Berlin Baby
Finley Clark dropped the ultimate siren alt-rock anthem with her latest hypersonically hooked hit, Berlin Baby. Delivering a sound salacious enough to be more in line with the wares of an underground sex shop than a record store, Clark reached the epitome of raunchy filth with her electrifyingly infectious standout single that could easily replace Nine Inch Nails’ Closer on the dancefloor of goth clubs as the ultimate single to writhe to. By fusing the danceability of dark electro pop with the attitude and angst of alt-rock, the trailblazing artist used the kinetic power of the release to deliver a message that Kathleen Hanna would undoubtedly approve of. Berlin Baby stomps forward on aggressive glam-industrial guitars, heavy electronic bass, icy verses, and theatrical choruses, turning female rage, ambition, and power into high fashion provocation. There are traces of Marilyn Manson’s Mobscene in the dirty theatricality, Amy Lee in the haunted vocal force, and Panic! At The Disco in the grandiose drama, while Finley Clark keeps the release sharpened with her own anti-patriarchal venom. Raised in a German-speaking environment and later studying German literature, Clark threaded late-60s counterculture, feminist history, and Berlin iconography into the DNA of the single. With producer […]
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