Taste Test: Suzy Callahan pricks humanity with new version of ‘The Devil Haunts You’
The folk singer strips her song away into a truly astounding performance.
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Sharp Objects is a psychologically-grueling masterpiece that slides between familial mayhem and personally-wrought traumas. The aftermath is somehow as violently-beautiful as it is poetically-disastrous, and those who can escape its clutches might have a story or two to tell. Dark folk singer-songwriter Suzy Callahan peels her own song called “The Devil Haunts You” (originally on her 2011 studio album, People Change) into a gloriously-macabre and twisted tale of retribution, left only to a piano and synth-work courtesy of Scott Tyburski, that fits nicely beside the blockbuster HBO mini-series. Her performance grafts the skin; it’s severe tone leaves you gasping for breath and unable to squirm away. But music should make you feel things, anything, to know of an existence far removed from your own. And Callahan delivers one helluva performance for the ages. “I hope the devil haunts you” is a hook that’ll spook you to the core.
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