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MP3 The Arid Sea - New Roman Twilight
9 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Goth, ROCK: Psychedelic
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A review by legendary music journalist Mick Mercer from his online webzine, The Mick:
God forbid I should ever aim to please but I can’t deny that after a weekend of more personal revelations it’s reassuring to get back to the music, and I have something wonderful to tell you about which you should put at the top of your shopping list (and craftily forge onto the top of anyone else’s you can access).
Very cool, very interesting - a subtle blend of gloom and sensitivity brings a superior indie song writing feel into Goth territory, which usually creates something interesting. The playful, teasing drums that burst throughout ‘Life Is Brief, Life Is Long’ are equalled by gently shimmering guitar and succulent shadowy synth to really draw you in, while the ache in the vocals have a pensive quality which means you’re not going to have any egos crashing out spewing preposterous twaddle, although the lyrics rebuff too much investigation. Musically, it rises and glides wonderfully, then some burnished bass weaves through a slower ‘Weighed Against A Feather’ to beef up simpler drums. The guitar creates warmth behind pained vocals and there’s such a classy crump to these drums you know the recording has caught them as close to live as is possible. It bulges with a quiet vitality, close in spirit to someone like Heart’s Fail.
Mini-surges push through the glory of ‘Mercy Killing’ as they summon up their own energy waves, with some brilliantly guitar surfing over passionate but controlled vocals and together they built up to a tight climax that then meets the brightly seeping ‘Ringing’, as a more simple tone overcomes vocal self-recrimination in an almost relaxed setting. Then these lugubrious drums start to stir ‘Passage’ and tingling guitars remain clear and bold while the vocals move frantically from side to side, then soar. ‘The Moon Follows Mercury’ is polite, with beautiful guitar and bass once more offering a neat counteracting influence on circumspect vocal doldrums, and the riveting guitar really does start to staple itself to your head, as together they forge a brackish path which they drag you down, dovetailing neatly into the funereal stamp of ‘Hanging’ but here the song remains open and strolls with real vigour and poise, assuming an almost placid strength, yet with a robust candour. Even when going into slow territory you’re never close to anything drowsy.
‘An Image In The Flames’ is fantastic, as the instruments cautiously build and start to glow, peak then fall back again to a slow end in what is a superbly modest piece, then ‘Closing In’ tickles itself up into a lightly raging up and down pattern, with a gnashing sense of defiant spirit, somewhat thrown sideways by a voiceover and then ending enigmatically, which is understandable. Here we have a band whose main core has worked in isolation for nearly a decade but now has a brilliant band starting to feel their way, and feeling it brilliantly as though they have genetically modified fingers.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner. Waving not drowning, but certain in sorrow.
-Mick Mercer
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