EDEN – East Of The Stars album review

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80's wave, All About Eve, alternative, cactus world news, Cocteau Twins, coldwave, darkwave, Eden - East Of The Stars, goth, gothic, Gothic Rock, guitarpop, postpunk, pure sonic seduction, Sean Bowley, shoegaze, siouxsie and the banshees, The Chameleons, The Church, The Cure, The Doors, The Edge, The Mission, This Mortal Coil, U2, wiretrain

 

East Of The Stars the new release from Sean Bowley’s Eden and the follow up to the mesmerising album The Edge Of Winter released 3 years ago. The album opens with a stunning instrumental Choral Matins an epic soundscape of shimmering guitars washing over the heartbeat like drum. The track continues to build reminding me of The Church, Cactus World News and The Chameleons at their best. Crank the stereo up to 11 and let the brilliant musical tide crash over you. Love this opening track! Searching For Angels Hands continues the classic 80’s guitar wave sound draped in Sean’s velvet vocals. Uplifting melancholic magic! Guardian has sprinkles of guitar akin to The Mission, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil and Wiretrain – pure sonic seduction. Rainwashed – A Hymnlike mantra to better times when the current plague days are over. Fingers of guitar from The Edge’s early U2 days adorn the end of this track and brings the A-Side of the album to a close. The second side opens with the title track East Of The Stars a shoegazed seranade. Great! All The Time In The World – A lovely wall of chorus, reverb,and delay melts into darkpop Psychodelia. An anthemn for current times weaving sorrow down your spine…… Hymns And Mist – musically this reminds me of All About Eve perhaps a hint of The Cure tinged keyboards topped with Sean’s unique vocals. Epic! Stone Cat – A gothic masterpiece awash and swirled with hints of The Mission, The Doors, and Siouxsie and The Banshees A great end to a great album! Would have been one to see at the WGT 2020 fingers crossed WGT 2021 happens with Eden on the bill.

Get your copy from https://edenseanbowley.bandcamp.com/album/east-of-the-stars

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80's alternative, Alien Delon, Ancient Light, Animotion, Ash Code, Beauty In Chaos, Black Veiled, coldwave, Dark Electro, Dark Music, darkfolk, Darkness, darkstyle, darkwave, Dave Gahan, DEATH IN JUNE, deathwave, Depeche Mode, DIE KRUPPS, dj de'ath, DJ De'▲th, ebm, EMO, Evi Vine, Exit Music, Fehm, Felte Records, Goldfrapp, Goth events UK, Goth UK, gothic events uk, gothic Uk, KATAYA CELEBRINE, LEAETHER STRIP, Lissie, Mitra Mitra, neofolk, newwave, Night Haze, NU-Goth, NUGOTH, NYNEX, Odonis Odonis, postpunk, Sextile, shoegaze, The Sound Of The Underground, The Tower Of Light, The Venus Fly Trap, White HEX, WONDER DARK

I Will Follow – BEAUTY IN CHAOS feat Evi Vine
New God – THE TOWER OF LIGHT
Trumpet Fade – EXIT MUSIC
Paradise – WHITE HEX
Go Your Own Way – LISSIE
Little Black Angel – KATAYA CELEBRINE & NYNEX
Der Amboss – DIE KRUPPS
I Engineer (extended mix) – ANIMOTION
Eisbar – LEAETHER STRIP
Oceans (dominatrix long vers) – GOLDFRAPP feat DAVE GAHAN
Accidental Protege – ALIEN DELON
Somewhere – ANCIENT LIGHT
Telescopes – MITRA MITRA
Disco – SEXTILE
Lost In The Light – NIGHT HAZE
Scarborough Warning – FEHM
Black Gloves – ASH CODE
Vitesse – THE VENUS FLY TRAP
No Place – WONDER DARK
Vanta Black – ODONIS ODONIS

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A Projection, A Thousand Hours, Anna Von Hauswolff, Autumn, Black Flag, Black Veiled podmix, Chamanes, darkfolk, darkwave, Death In Rome, deathwave, De▲th W▲ve, Desperate Journalist, dj de'ath, ПРЕДСМЕРТНАЯ КАДРИЛЬ, Ethereal, Fearing, Fehm, goth, Goth Music Yorkshire, Goth yorks, gothic, Gothic events Yorkshire, Gothic music Yorkshire, gothic yorkshire, Japan Suicide, kirlian Camera, Moon Tapes, neofolk, Numb.er, postpunk, psychobilly, punk, Rain Children, Rome, SCHONWALD, Screature, shoegaze, THE DAMNED, The Dead Souls, THE HOUSE OF USHER, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Tongue, Velvet Kills

This Silent Game – RAIN CHILDREN
Sleep Of Angels – A THOUSAND HOURS
Sea Of Memory – KIRLIAN CAMERA
Blighter – ROME
The Mysterious Vanishing Of Electra – ANNA VON HAUSWOLFF
Salvation – DEATH IN ROME
Desire – MOON TAPES
The Fall – AUTUMN
Circadian Life – FEHM
Ordinary Days – THE HOUSE OF USHER
Hollow – DESPERATE JOURNALIST
On The Rocks – VELVET KILLS
Standing On The Edge Of Tomorrow – THE DAMNED
Похмелье – ПРЕДСМЕРТНАЯ КАДРИЛЬ
Fading – TONGUE
Dealer – JAPAN SUICIDE
Desert Lands – THE DEAD SOULS
A Way With Me – FEARING
Waiting – for A Light – SCREATURE
Victory – SCHONWALD
Fear – NUMB.ER
Absolute Zero – NO MORE ART
Chicas Bikini – CHAMANES
Exit – A PROJECTION
Drinking & Driving – BLACK FLAG
New Kind Of Kick – THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

JAPAN SUICIDE – Santa Sangre

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Blade Runner, cactus world news, deathwave, Editors, gothic, Gothic Italy, Interpol, Into Paradise, Japan Suicide, Noir Désir, postpunk, ritual, Santa Sangre - Japan Suicide, Savages, shoegaze, soviet soviet, The Cure, The Doors, The Underground Youth, U2, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The highly anticipated new album from Japan Suicide  – ‘Santa Sangre’ is due for release on 14th February 2018. The album opens with the title track Santa Sangre – has a postpunk holy mass feel and is the perfect intro.

Circle comes next a ritualistic intro melts into relentless intensive waves of postpunk musical attitude. Reminds me a bit of Noir Desir, Great! Dealer possibley my favourite track on the album due to the pulsing 80’s bass and a great mix of shimmering and searing guitars to burn a hole in the dancefloor. Love it! El Ritual sees the pace drop into a sea of atmospherics, reminds me a bit of ‘Cactus World News’. Nice! Blown Away reignites the pulsing postpunk push to the dancefloor, with a splash of ‘The Cure’. Lovely! For Every Flaw –luscious intense jingly jangly guitars add to the wall of postpunk sound which will appeal to fans of Into Paradise. Great track! Fate has a more gothic feel to it, aided by the dark, desolate sounding keyboards splashing against deft drumming and shoegaze guitars. Rejoice – has a hint of U2’s ‘Stories For Boys’ album mixed up with ‘The Doors’ –  psychedelic postpunk atmospherics. Love it! Thus Bad Begins builds the the postpunk psychedelic atmosphere further. Lost Daughter and the temperature rises until it bursts into a searing postpunk classic. Nice! Carcosa – I can see this being the intro track for all future live performances. Postpunked Blade Runner. Epic! A great follow up to ‘We Die In Such a Place’

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Boy Harsher, Brachko, coldwave, Cult Of Haze, dark 80's, dark alternative, Dark Door, dark indie, Dark Music, Dark xmas, darkfolk, darkwave, Death In Rome, deathwave, De▲th W▲ve, DJ De'▲th, Drab Majesty, Ethereal, European Ghost, Fehm, Gama-X, Ghostwave, Girl Grave, Glaare, goth, gothic, Gothic Rock, Ikon, In The Nursery, INVSN, Japan Suicide, King Plague, Kudzu, Liquid Rooms, MXMS, neofolk, new order, new wave, NU-Goth, NUGOTH, NUGOTH UK, Placebo, postpunk, Protomartyr, Sadaemon, Secret Sight, Shad Shadows, shoegaze, Sidewalks And Skeletons, Soft Kill, the kvb, The Secret French Postcards, The Slow Readers Club, THE SOFT MOON, The Sound, Then Comes Silence, True Moon, VYSMECH?, wiretrain, Witchhouse

Alchemist – SADAEMON
Ave Plague – KING PLAGUE
Born To Die – SIDEWALKS AND SKELETONS
Flesh – GIRL GRAVE
Carol Of Bells – MXMS
Last Christmas – DEATH IN ROME
Torschlusspanik – IN THE NURSERY
Like They Do – GLAARE
Snow Like Ashes – CULT OF HAZE
Sugar – TRUE MOON
Circle – JAPAN SUICIDE
Fallen – SECRET SIGHT
Frankie – SOFT KILL
In Deep – THE KVB
Everything Turning Up Down – WIRETRAIN
No Backbone – KUDZU
Black Bullets – LIQUID ROOMS
White Fall – SHAD SHADOWS
Into The Dark – GAMA-X
Vuoto – DARK DOOR
Motion – BOY HARSHER
We Can’t Escape – VYSMECH?
Fingers – THE SECRET FRENCH POSTCARDS
It Kills – THE SOFT MOON
The Foyer – DRAB MAJESTY
New Dawn – BRACHKO
The Garden Of The Lost – IKON
New Dark Age – THE SOUND
Leave Me Alone – NEW ORDER
Windsor Hum – PROTOMARTYR
Slave To The Wage – PLACEBO
Preset – EUROPEAN GHOST
Human Age – FEHM
I Dreamt Music – INVSN
The Dead Cry For No-One – THEN COMES SILENCE
Lunatic – THE SLOW READERS CLUB

 

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A Thousand Hours, Actors, Anima Triste, Ash Code, Astari Nite, Black Asteroid, Black Veiled podmix, Box and the Twins, Chelsea Wolfe, Cold Cave, coldwave, Dark, Dark Electronics, Darkher, darkwave, deathwave, De▲th W▲ve, dj de'ath, DJ De'▲th, Drab Majesty, DREAMS ARE LIKE WATER -, EIVøR, Frio y Vacio, Ghostwave, goth, gothic, Gothic Rock, Grave Pleasures, H ø R D, HORD, JOHN MERRICKS REMAINS, Lebanon Hanover, minimal, Myrkur, new wave, Occult, Poison Point, postpunk, Russian Rose, S.A.D, SCHONWALD, Sextile, shoegaze, So What, Sounds Like Winter, SUICIDE COMMANDO, THE BLACK VEILS, THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS, THE SPIRITUAL BAT, Tragic Black, TRAITRS, Twinrova, Venus Flytrap

Ghost Tears – DARKHER
I Tokuni – EIVøR
Ulvinde – MYRKUR
16 Psyche – CHELSEA WOLFE
Crushed – A THOUSAND HOURS
A Sea-Spell (single edit) – DREAMS ARE LIKE WATER
Forever – ACTORS
The Devil – SUICIDE COMMANDO
A Secret – SCHONWALD
Oak Wood – DRAB MAJESTY
Sun Explodes – BLACK ASTEROID (feat Cold cave)
Eleven – HøRD
We Are So Fragile – JOHN MERRICKS REMAINS
Human Fly – VENUS FLYTRAP
One Of These – SEXTILE
Enter The Batcave – SO WHAT
I Have A Crack – LEBANON HANOVER
Imaginary Veil – POISON POINT
The Choice – RUSSIAN ROSE
She’s Gone – S.A.D
Icy Cold – ASH CODE
Elite Singles – TWINROVA
This Place Called Nowhere – BOX AND THE TWINS
The Wicker Man – THE BLACK VEILS
The Witching Hour – ASTARI NITE
All Of You – ANIMA TRISTE
Lya – TRAITRS
India – THE PSYCHEDLIC FURS
Be My Hiroshima – GRAVE PLEASURES
Fue Dificil – FRIO Y VACIO
Plastic – SOUNDS LIKE WINTER
Guilty – THE SPIRITUAL BAT
Play For Today – TRAGIC BLACK

DREAMS ARE LIKE WATER – A Sea-Spell

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4AD, A Sea Spell, All About Eve, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, cranes, dreampop, DREAMS ARE LIKE WATER -, Ethereal, gothic, New Zealand, Pale Saints, shoegaze, This Mortal Coil

Judging by the name and sound the band are partly inspired by This Mortal Coil. A Sea Spell features dual male and female vocals in a delicate slice of dreampop dusted with shoegaze and the sound of the sea. Perfection! (Thrice) In Blood seems to capture the intensity of Bauhaus in say the style of “Passion Of Lovers/Silent Hedges” but with a delicate female vocal, Epic! Ineffable reminds me of very much of early All About Eve when they used a drum machine. Lush! Feathered Infant Bells is the longest track on the EP at 9.11 weaving a web of ethereal gossamer that tears into a shoegaze dirge. Wow! A great debut indeed. Look forward to the album 😉

https://dreamsarelikewater.bandcamp.com/

EDEN – The Edge Of Winter

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All About Eve, Balaam and The Angel, Brendan Perry, darkpop, darkwave, Dead Can Dance, deathwave, dreampop, EDEN - The Edge Of Winter, Ethereal, Frankie Laine, goth, gothic, Joy Divison, Salvation, Sean Bowley, shoegaze, siouxsie and the banshees, The Church, The Edge, The Mission, The Rose Of Avalanche, Twin Peaks, U2

The Edge of Winter is Eden’s first full release in two decades. Recorded in Melbourne at the famed Toyland Studios recorded and produced by Adam Calaitzis.

Tha album opens with Death Of A Diamond when I heard this track for the first time it was one of those wow moments. I was surprised at the exceptional male vocals which for me rubs shoulders with Brendan Perry, sounding slightly more dulcet, The vocals of Sean reminds of the great singer Frankie Laine, who was famed for his western film songs such as Ghost Riders In The Sky, Rawhide etc. One of those voices that will burn into the memory. Now I’ve mentioned it, this track could easily fit in a western blockbuster about a lone rider, it’s that good! Epic layers of shimmering and rivers driven guitars build a monumental soundscape, fantastic lyrics. Love this song! Lost & Found – A different musical arrangement adds a slightly more gothic, ethereal feel. Great vocals again. Fantastic song! Girl With Violin has a more swirly shoegaze guitar feel with a walzlike drive. Love it! All The Time In The World – reminds musically like a cross between All About Eve, Early Balaam and the Angel and The Church – Yes it’s that good! Topped off with the perfect vocals. Great lyrics too. Suanitriade – This instrumental has a slightly Arabian feel has the musical atmosphere of Dead Can Dance with a splash of Twin Peaks. Nice! The Edge Of Winter – what a great title track and another example of why Sean does rub shoulders with Brendan Perry in this epic vocal delivery. Pure ethereal atmospherics akin to Dead Can Dance. Love it! Returning – more gothic with a hint slower early Mission mixed with a Banshees ballard. Lovely! The perfect vocal again. Perfume Garden – the perfect dark dream pop song to ignite the gothic dancefloor. Epic! December -If you are a fan of The Rose of Avalanche or Salvation you will like this song. Paisley goth. Love it! Great Vocals too! Fryerstown – has the grandiose feel of a speeded up Joy Division’s Atmosphere perforated with an Edgelike guitar burst. Breathtaking! Sky Above – – is again very much aimed at the dancefloor musically a fusion between Dead Can Dance and The Banshees a great gothic tribalistic masterpiece. Love it!
Winter – Another instrumental with a epic feel. Crank Your amp up to max and let the plaster come down 😉
Shame I missed the gig in Leipzig, so I might be I have put in a trip to Oz to see them 😉 Yet another contender for album of the year in my ears 😉 So get Your copy from

https://edenseanbowley.bandcamp.com/album/the-edge-of-winter

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ANTIFLVX, Beastial Mouths, Bestial Mouths, Black Orchestra, Black Veiled podmix, Buzz Kull, Charnier, coldwave, darkwave, deathwave, De▲th W▲ve, DIRK DA DAVO, dj de'ath, Drab Majesty, Gentle Ihors Devotion, Ghostwave, goth, gothic, Martial Canterel, Mary, Mellow Grave, NEW TODAY, new wave, Peter Hook & The Light, Poison Point, postpunk, SCHONWALD, shoegaze, Shytalk soft kill, STRVNGERS, Supernova 1006, Veil Of Light

Little Black Angel – SHYTALK
Perfume – MARY
Cold Heart – DIRK DA DAVO
Memories Like Dreams – ANTIFLVX
Roses & Lillies – POISON POINT
Dressed To Kill – STRVNGERS
Eyesore – MELLOW GRAVE
Dope – SUPERNOVA 1006
Tomorrow’s Ghost – BUZZ KULL
Down To The Bones (beastial mouths remix)- BESTIAL MOUTHS
Things She Wears – MARTIAL CANTEREL
Can You Remember – CHARNIER
Instinct – BLACK ORCHESTRA
Whirl – SOFT KILL
Wake Up Call – NEW TODAY
Love Collides – SCHONWALD
Soul In Ethanol – VEIL OF LIGHT
Kissing The Ground – DRAB MAJESTY
20th Century – GENTLE IHORS DEVOTION
Isolation – PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT

Principe Valiente – Oceans

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-Oceans, afmusic, deathwave, Disintegration -The Cure, Floodland, goth, gothic, new wave, Oceans- Principe Valiente, postpunk, PRINCIPE VALIENTE, shoegaze, Sisters Of Mercy, Slowdive, Sweden, The Cure, The Essence

Sweden’s Principe Valiente return with their third album Oceans. The album opens with Wildest Flowers with Fernando’s as strong as ever voice soaring high above a fantastical shoegaze sea of breezy guitars, bass, drum and keyboards that ebbs and flows around the aural senses. Great track! When I Learned To Crawl – some great guitar hooks that rock! Female vocals add a new dynamic towards the end of the song.

Strangers In The Night was the instant stand out track for me with luscious guitar and bass hooks in a composition as good as anything on Sisters Of Mercy’s “Floodland” with a sprinkle of The Cure / The Essence what a great gothic track! Untouchable is a classical cold, lonely, melancholic slice of dark atmosphere which drifts into almost Slowdive darkened dirge. Love it! Running juveniles – has the musical feel of The Cure’s “Disintegration” album without being a tribute. Dark dream pop! No Time – has a strong 80’s new wave feel in the guitars which makes for another great track. Love the sparks of dual male/female vocals. The Reason Why – sublime shoegaze. Monsters Of The Sea – keeps the tempo low on this delicate dark dreamscape. Great! The album’s over too soon.

so get Your copy from
https://principevaliente.bandcamp.com/album/oceans