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‘Heavenly Vocals’ time and here we have a contrast – one female voice that’s light, sweet and emotional over a rumbling tremor of guitars, bass and drums - sort of like a garage-rock Renaissance, but just awesome. The girly style vocals sit neatly upon acres of chiming guitars and flowing rhythms, with lyrics clear and upfront, and the production bringing the vocal up in the mix rather than burying it, as so often happens. Comparisons? Not easy as it’s seriously varied: piano-guitar ballads at one end, surging panoramic tidal waves of the instruments at the other, while all the time the sweet female vocal flies effortlessly overhead. I’ve not really heard anyone quite like this because there are few hooks, despite plenty of melodies, so I suppose the nearest is a grungy Kate Bush/Annie Haslam – make of that what you will, but it’s 11 tracks/48 minutes of good stuff.

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This album largely drops the drums from the soundstage, but it will still delight existing fans and must surely be the best place to start for people unfamiliar with the dark, gothic, synth/samples/bass/effects – laden, multi-layered soundscapes that are the trademark of what has become the leader of instrumental dark-wave music. Throughout the 5 amazing tracks you get the full works: towering slabs of keyboard sounds, string synths, deep rumbling bass, rich choral effects, Gregorian chants, strong eerie textures and ethereal samples that rise up from the depths. At one point it all becomes pretty celestial and ghostly, then it wells up to form mighty webs of sound that flow and soar, still with the dark air of cloudy skies and huge black fortresses well to the forefront of the mind’s eye. This has to be one of (if not THE finest) Raison D'etre albums to date – fifty-three minutes of absolute essential listening for all fans of the dark-wave genre, and for anyone who has not yet explored the ghostly atmospheric delights of real dark-wave electronic music before… try this one and experience the earth shattering depths it reaches!

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