10 Rock Music Albums Where One Person Plays Everything
8. Neon Noir - VV
After leading Finnish rock band HIM for the better part of 30 years, singer Ville Valo decided to strike it out alone. And when he said "alone", he really meant it.
Under the name VV, Valo went solo in 2020 and, three years later, put out the first record to bear solely his name.
Neon Noir can trace its roots back to the COVID-19 pandemic, when Valo first started working on his own stuff. The title was taken from the neo-noir school of filmmaking, as well as being oxymoronic in the sense that neon means bright and noir means dark.
According to the album's liner notes, the music on Neon Noir was "Written, produced, engineered, and performed by Ville Valo". Whilst it doesn't give the specifics of what he did, the only other people credited are the mixer, the masterer, and the cover photographer, so one has to assume that Valo just played everything.
Maybe he attached all the instruments to himself in a sort of one-man band configuration. A Finnish Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins, if you will.