Black Bordello’s second album, White Bardo, takes the listener on an immersive journey through the abstract, tapping into profound themes of surrender, love, mortality, and mysticism. At the helm is Sienna Bordello, whose songwriting, for the band’s sophomore effort, turns inward toward the metaphysical and outer space, leaving behind the harsh realities and disappointments of adolescence.
The nine tracks on White Bardo deliver a sonic shift for the band, adopting a more refined, primal edge that distills Sienna’s macabre lyricism into something sharper, more piercing. The band’s earlier work focused on disillusionment with societal politics and misogyny, but here, there’s a sense of escape – a surrender to cosmic forces far beyond earthly concerns. Sienna herself explains: “I became fed up and bored by earthly politics and semantics, hence my current fascination with the metaphysical world and outer space.” It’s this tension between earthly constraints and cosmic liberation that gives White Bardo its driving energy.
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