Dutch female singer-songwriter Wende Snijders debuted with the French-language cover albums Quand tu Dors (2004) and La Fille Noyee/ The Drowned Girl (2006).
The English-language album
No 9 (2009) was her third album, not counting live and compilations,
and the first one of original material, mostly composed with Jan van Eerd,
and embraced dance-pop styles of the time.
Influenced by a few collaborations with classical musicians, she crafted
complex orchestral odes (Last Resistance) and electronic elegies (Ask the Tree) on Last Resistance (2013), but the results were amateurish.
Mens (2018) experimented with wildly more interesting arrangements and
song structures.
Even the emphatic synth-pop of Buenos Aires boasts orchestral sounds that don't quite fit,
and the frenzied Heb ik Dat Nodig?/ Do I Need that? has a rousing melody that gets more and more threatening.
Those are the conventional songs. At the other end of the spectrum there is
the psychedelic drum-less lied Alles Gaat Kapot,
the electronic explosion of fear of Hoe Lang Nog?,
and the
subliminal spoken-word litany over minimal beat and ghostly choir Als Diamant.
Sterrenlopen/ Star Walking (2023), another attempt at pop stardom, contains the singles
Het Is Genoeg, Dit Is Alles and Sterrenlopen.
