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Autumn Slater 2010"Elisabeth Wood a.k.a. Fancie ist ein einziges Mysterium. Mit falschem Pathos und viel Liebe zum Außergewöhnlichen zaubert die Wahl-Berlinerin uns eine Welt aus Kaugummi-Bombast, Performance-Art, Glamrock und Techno. Ihre Musik hypnotisiert. Man möchte ihren Gesang, der z.T. an Shirley Bassey erinnert, am liebsten abonnieren." (Jan Lankisch, King Georg, Juni 2010)
"A multimedia spectacle, including bizarre movie footage that has invoked comparison to the work of David Lynch, Fancie’s set has the reputation of being quite the aural and visual experience." (Nick Miller, Sacramento News & Review, November 2009)
"From Berlin and Sacramento. If Joni Mitchell said, ÐF‹k you, Crosby,Ó and took a few hits of E and went skydiving with a boys choir. Electronic yet organic R&B." (Stephen Steinbrink/French Quarter, 2008)
"Karate Kid + Romance + Acid Trip = Fancie. This is a love story. More beautiful than any Disney tale, more intense than any film score, this is a new kind of romance. Meet Fancie, one of the most innovative bands in Sacramento and easily the craziest. Part modern day TLC (but with self preservation ) part Zappa and part neurotic nightmare, Fancie somehow rallies every type of genre together to create a pool of triumphant 80's, new wave, hip-hop, electro, "Rocky-esque" mystic music that leaves you baffled." (Terra Lopez, Sacramento News & Review, 2008)
"There is no straight up way to describe Fancie's music. Listening to Fancie's songs on Myspace, I am struck by how different they sounded on stage. The anthemic ÐDouble MazeÓ was a highlight. GZA worship in full effect. Theatricalism in service of directing vibes, like a conductor of the imagination. Someone told me he thought they were like a collage, disjointed. He found them a little incoherent. But I loved the slapdash funnishness of the whole thing. The mixture of sounds‹from slippery, hi-hat disco to 4 on floor dance, baggy-beat to hip hop, fake strings among others‹made me jittery and united at once. ÐFancieÓ just killed live, and that is the gods awesome truth." (Ashwin, The Animal Experimentation Society, 2008)
"Songs that are very strange, very musical, with the kind of hidden, mysterious intelligence that means we're all supposed to figure it out for ourselves." (James Carson, Canadian, 2008)
"Reminds me at different times of vocalists like Dolly Parton, Chan Marshall, Nina Simone and Jolie Holland--a disparate bunch for sure." (Amy, Shake Your Fist, 2005)
"This came out of nowhere (Berlin, to be precise) and is quite possibly my favourite record of 2005. ten gorgeous abstract narratives, with a whole array of instrumentation, and atop it all dance Fancie's deliriously vibrant vocals. The lady croons jazz, croons folk, croons singer-songwriter, croons spiritual, croons campfire sing-along--all to a wondrous effect. The choral work dazzles, the lyrics intrigue, and the arrangements prove exceptionally tight. Most highly recommended." (Matthew Solarski, 2005)
"If it is possible for a human being to sound arch and dreamy at the same time, then Wood is a master of that emotional juxtaposition." (Splendid Ezine, Jenn Sikes, 2001)
"A Negative Capability is ... ultimately an album rife with mystery, strength, and vulnerability, Wood bravely plumbs the depths of emotion and offers it to the world." (Matt Fink, Delusions of Adequacy, 2001)
