Monsterheart

Choosing a band name is a delicate task. If done carefully, it can elegantly convey the direction a band or an artist is moving in, the goals they are pursuing, and the creative or even ideological ideas behind their music. If chosen poorly, however, it can also backfire catastrophically.
For Austrian musician and visual artist Anna Attar, the former applies. In 2011, she chose the name Monsterheart for her solo music project, and this pseudonym perfectly sums up her aesthetic vision. Her music evokes a self-reliant little world in which she often combines very different extremes. Songs reminiscent of the supposed sweetness of children's songs are sent into gloomy dark wave forests. Cheerful, immensely melodic indie pop is shaken up by melancholic folk.
In terms of content, Monsterheart also combines themes that rarely have anything to do with each other, but which, when combined, create a beguilingly romantic yet slightly unfathomable mood: science fiction fairy tales, introspective journeys and contemplative realism.