{"id":712118,"date":"2026-07-26T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712118\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:44:30","slug":"album-review-mimi-barks-dreamstate-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712118\/","title":{"rendered":"Album review: Mimi Barks \u2013 Dreamstate Of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Magic or voodoo? It\u2019s hard to tell with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/artists\/mimi-barks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mimi Barks<\/a>. The German-born artist isn\u2019t just an innovator, she\u2019s utterly resolute in her dedication to the weird and wondrous. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI find beauty in the obscene. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s horrible,\u201d she told K! in 2024, shortly after the release of debut album proper THIS IS DOOM TRAP. It\u2019s that divinely deviant interest in the macabre, in life\u2019s extreme contrasts, that makes her music so fascinating.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This finds her opening new pages. Dreamstate Of Hell, written after her move to Los Angeles, is a delicious, jarring collusion of rock, pop and metal shot through with daring undercurrents of electronics. It\u2019s the perfect palette for Mimi to paint visions of Heaven and Hell, not in a dreamy afterlife sense, but in a more full-frontal vision of what\u2019s happening right now. Beyond that, it\u2019s just a great song that drags you back into her strange world.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While the words &#8216;Mimi&#8217; and &#8216;mainstream&#8217; ain\u2019t gonna be used together very often, Ophelia is the nearest she\u2019s got to an accessible thrill ride, a frankly beautiful combination of build and release, screams and melody, light and dark. It\u2019s the sort of thing that eternal alt metal flames In This Moment specialise in, proof that there\u2019s no limits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magic or voodoo? It\u2019s hard to tell with Mimi Barks. The German-born artist isn\u2019t just an innovator, she\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}