Princess Chelsea

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Chelsea Nikkel (born September 4, 1985 in Auckland ), known by her stage name Princess Chelsea , is a New Zealand singer and music producer . Musically, Princess Chelsea is assigned to indie pop , synth pop and baroque pop .

Career

Musically, Nikkel was shaped in the classical way, with piano and clarinet lessons. While still at school, she wrote the song Monkey Eats Bananas , which later became known primarily for a deliberately trashy music video. After finishing school, she founded the punk band Teen Wolf with two friends and became a live member of the tweepop band The Brunettes . In addition to classical composers such as Bach or Grieg , she counts contemporary interpreters such as Grimes , Boards of Canada or Air among her influences.

Nikkel was signed by the independent label Lil 'Chief Records , which released the debut album Lil' Golden Book by the nineteen-year-olds in 2011 . The Guardian saw “magical-musical moral stories” as well as “poisonous fairy tales” and “lullabies for the Addams Family” in this debut. Musically, the album is described as a “soundtrack to an old Disney film, mixed with Kraftwerk , with Enya as the singer, in a 1960s production of Les Mis in space” and as a “weird version of the young France Gall ”. All in all, it would be a “great album”, especially if you have a sense for the “adorable strange”. The New Zealand Herald praised the "angelic song with a bitter joke".

Nikkel achieved notoriety in 2012 for the music video of her song The Cigarette Duet , in which she and Jonathan Bree argued about smoking. The follow-up album The Great Cybernetic Depression was released in 2015 . Thematically, the album deals primarily with social and technological criticism. In 2015 Robin Schulz released a remix of her song World Turns Gray on his album Sugar . After the cover album Aftertouch , the fourth album by Princess Chelsea was released in 2018 with The Loneliest Girl . The Musikexpress sees it as "elegiac, echoing, sugary synth-pop", but also criticizes the fact that it would have been further in this "irony game" and that one would quickly have had enough of the "winking child schema show".

Discography

Albums

  • 2011: Lil 'Golden Book
  • 2015: The Great Cybernetic Depression
  • 2016: aftertouch
  • 2018: The Loneliest Girl

EPs

  • 2012: The Cigarette Duet (European Tour Edition)

Singles

  • 2009: Your Woman
  • 2009: Monkey Eats Bananas
  • 2010: And I Love Her
  • 2011: Too Fast to Live
  • 2011: The Cigarette Duet
  • 2011: Ice Reign
  • 2012: Overseas
  • 2013: We're So Lost
  • 2014: No Church on Sunday

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ PRINCESS CHELSEA INTERVIEWED (2015): She are very happy-ish - Elsewhere by Graham Reid. In: elsewhere.co.nz. May 7, 2015, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ New band of the day - No 1,281: Princess Chelsea - Music - The Guardian. In: theguardian.com. June 1, 2012, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Princess Chelsea - EPK. In: lilchiefrecords.com. Retrieved September 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Review: Princess Chelsea - The Loneliest Girl. In: musikexpress.de. September 6, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  5. ^ Princess Chelsea - Reeperbahn Festival. In: reeperbahnfestival.com. Retrieved September 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Princess Chelsea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikkel, Chelsea (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand singer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland , Canada