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Marianne Nowottny was a teen-sensation, causing a stir with her 1999 debut album, ‘Afraid Of Me’. Not an album chock full of sugar-laced powder-pop songs as a casual observer might have wrongly thought, it instead was a unique release, shunning pop trends for avant-garde arrangements and dark twisting vocals. After several releases which have established her name in leftfield-pop circles, her latest album, the curiously titled ‘What Is She Doing?’ has been released courtesy of Abaton Book Company. The thing is that I didn’t know any of this before receiving this album and when I saw the digipak I was slightly perplexed. The cover looks like a cross between Wendy Carlos’s ‘Secrets of Synthesis’ and an early nineties Disney-pop release. Furthermore, the track names are extremely pop-centric and they are all 2-5 minutes long which typically means that the amount of experimentation and melodic-exploration are limited. For a professional music reviewer none of this really matters as it’s the music that does the talking and I for one was pleasantly surprised.