Red Wedding is the recording project of Sarah Goldfarb, who makes an inventive style of music that is willing to incorporate elements as diverse as bedroom pop, jangle pop and disco. We’re happy to share a new track, ‘Lucy’s Song’, which settles at the intersection of the above influences, the upbeat pop vibes countered by a heavy beat and atmospheric cello. To make it more impressive, Goldfarb plays all of the instruments on the song, with our friend Miguel Gallego (of Miserable Chillers/Dicktations) lending his mastering talents.
The eponymous Lucy is that of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the best friend of Mina Harker who is admired for her beauty and purity. Indeed, men value these qualities so highly that Lucy earns three marriage proposals on the same day, and her life only goes downhill from there. After unexplained symptoms like sleepwalking, a thorough prodding by Van Helsing and untold blood transfusions, Lucy is left bedridden with only her mother and a good dose of garlic for company. Taking the form of a bat and a wolf, Dracula still manages to get through her window, killing the mother through shock, before exsanguinating Lucy to the point of death.
Only she stays alive long enough to grow exaggerated canines and a new lustily impatient manner, and in dying comes to look better than in life. Which is to say she becomes a vampire, leaving the tragic heroism to a series of men who ultimately stop and drive a stake through her heart in order to save her soul.
With ‘Lucy’s Song’, Red Wedding offers a revised narrative in which Lucy is granted more autonomy, challenging her victim status and lifting her character from object to subject. Which is to say, Lucy is granted an awareness that is absent from Stoker’s telling, the changes to her body not some all-powerful force but a new dimension in her persona, and one which she can confront and grapple with like all personal changes.
You can find Red Wedding on Bandcamp, and on Twitter @goldfarb232.