Penny Ikinger Information

Australian-born PENNY IKINGER is a world-renowned guitar ace, singer and songwriter, with an international reputation for her solo work. Highly regarded as a solo artist, she has also performed with musicians from the USA, Japan, France and Australia, to great acclaim and instant fandom. Her debut solo album ELECTRA appeared in Top Ten lists (at #2 by critics from prestigious New York magazines The Village Voice and The Big Takeover) and numerous music publications in the USA, Europe, Canada and Australia. ELECTRA was released on CD worldwide through Career Records (USA) and on vinyl on Bang! Records (Spain). Guitar virtuoso, fuzz queen, sonic chanteuse, primal mistress of pop its hard to pin Penny Ikinger down in easy comparisons or simple terms. She has earned a stellar international reputation with touring rights in Japan, the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She is considered by the toughest of critics to be one of the Worlds finest. All woman and all business the Australian singer-guitarist a graduate of the Radio Birdman school of axe warfare unveils a fetching line of balladry here: black-hearted folk songs draped in fuzz, topped with a dark baby-doll whisper imagine Nico channelling Sandy Denny in front of Blue Oyster Cult and youre close. DAVID FRICKE, Senior Editor, Rolling Stone (USA) Penny Ikinger breathes delicacy and fuzz into her swooping solo work with an ease that is terrifying and beautiful. Known for her mind-warping, note-bending dirty rock, she also switches tempo to deliver classic pop tunes with shades of light and dark in a rich sonic soundscape. . with Ikingers aggressive white-noise cacophonies of guitar counter-pointed by the compelling coo of her voice, each song comes on like a sirens call from the depths SOPHIE BEST, The Age (Australia) ELECTRA was all breathy vocals and sonic guitar and her second solo album PENELOPE was a shift in style and tempo, with three-minute classic pop gems mix post-punk attack with swingin sixties attitude and 70s guitar experimentation. ...