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What Makes Vulnerability Good is the third studio album from 2019 by composer, vocalist, and performer, Like A Villain, AKA Holland Andrews.

What Makes Vulnerability Good is a deeply visceral and startlingly dynamic record. It moves like a pilgrimage through evocative soundscapes of ambiance, electronica, opera, contemporary jazz, and noise-pop. It takes influence from Andrews’ love of musical theatre as well as the avant-garde musicianship of Scott Walker, the emotional rawness of Diamanda Galas and the harsh enveloping soundscapes of Yellow Swans. With touches of Arab on Radar’s industrial noise blurred with the dense electronica of Holly Herndon.

Like A Villain is known for creating compositions which focus on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build soundscapes that offer both dissonance and a catharsis. The work frequently highlights themes surrounding vulnerability and healing, created with arrangements which harness Holland’s striking quasi-operative vocal and the power and elegance of the clarinet. Both run through the veins of What Makes Vulnerability Good with Andrews’ impassioned near-screamed vocal adding a weight to the personal purging of weakness, fear and heartbreak laid bare on... more
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released September 20, 2019

Written by Like A Villain and engineered and produced by Arjan Miranda (with engineering assistance by Ryan Oxford at Color Therapy Studios in Portland, Oregon, USA). The record features Joe Cunningham on saxophone and Laurence Vidal on cello.