(Translated from my original Italian text by ChatGPT and Piero Scaruffi)

Annie "Poe" Danielewski blends the smoky nightclub chanteuse tone of Rickie Lee Jones with the confessional, decadent style of Liz Phair on the album Hello (Atlantic, 1995), while simultaneously borrowing the sounds of contemporary trends.
The languid, erotic, and psychotic rap, which weaves through Hello and Trigger Happy Jack, absorbs the syncopated rhythms of hip hop, the graceful riffs of alternative hard rock, the velvety counterpoints of acid jazz, and the sample-based arrangements of industrial avant-garde. The style triumphs in the fatalistic ballad Angry Johnny, where the sonic arsenal ultimately enhances the lyrics. Following that approach, through increasingly refined melodies and ever more personal lyrics, Poe reaches the sleepwalking pop-jazz of Fingertips and Junkie.
Moments of more authentic pathos emerge, however, in the sparse, acoustic songs such as Fly Away. The album was produced with the collaboration of eight songwriters and three producers.

Haunted (Atlantic, 2000) marks a definitive improvement over her debut, since the home-recorded compositions are scored for voice sampling, drum machines and electronic keyboards with the flair of a Beck and the detachment of Guided By Voices. They are an intriguing (albeit failed) experiment in avantgarde songwriting.