Maria Minerva arrives her fourth and perhaps most intoxicating release of 2011, presenting yet another chameleonic slant on druggy, eighties musical sensations with Sacred & Profane Love. Essentially the first LP shaped entity to surface on 100% Silk, the saturated jams present here will turn the ears of anyone that deemed "Ruff Trade" their favourite Cabaret Cixous moment. Much like that track, the productions here allow Minerva's delightfully demure vocals more prominence and from the opening soft focus disco moments of opening track "A Love So Strong" you get the feeling this might be her most immediate work yet. It's a sensation teased out over the course of the subsequent four tracks, though it's likely Minerva is benefitting from new found confidence as a result of all the plaudits. Proceedings end with a superbly rattling Ital remix of the opening track, whilst the cover art is perhaps the best to date from Amanda Brown's label.

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