Regard Extrême – Eco SolemnisLabel: Steinklang Industries – SK169Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: EuropeReleased: Sep 15, 2024Style: Darkwave, Modern Classical, Neo-Classical More than 30 years since their first release, French Regard Extrême are back with a new album, their third on Steinklang. Stylistically, Eco Solemnis builds upon the foundation established on previous albums: medieval music and orchestral neoclassical with elements of martial industrial. In comparison to the previous album of new music, 2021’s Ars Veterum, Eco Solemnis incorporates more prominently the neoclassical elements of earlier Regard Extrême, but without abandoning the medieval, even monastical stylings. This makes for a beautiful synthesis of new and old, which should by all…
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Kirlian Camera – Invisible Front. 2005 (2 × Vinyl, 180g)
Kirlian Camera – Invisible Front. 2005 (2 × Vinyl, 180g)Label: Dependent – mind 344Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, 180gCountry: GermanyReleased: 2004Style: Experimental, Electro, Industrial, Synth-pop, Darkwave «For ‘Invisible Front’ we became completely immersed in our own visual worlds and created a towering barrier between us and the outside world.» (Angelo Bergamini)Extraordinary Italian band KIRLIAN CAMERA will gradually make their long out-of-stock albums available again via Dependent. Reissuing starts with the band’s 2004 modern classic «Invisible Front» on CD and limited edition vinyl for the first time.The title «Invisible Front” can be understood musically. Well-known to be crossing borders, KIRLIAN CAMERA followed a much more electronic course on «Invisible…
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Harsh Symmetry – Display Model
Harsh Symmetry – Display ModelLabel: Fabrika Records – DS041-1Format: CD, AlbumCountry: EuropeReleased: 15 Aug 2022Style: Post-Punk, New Wave, Synth-pop, Darkwave “The perfect soundtrack for the melancholy set clad in black, leather, and lace.” Following the release of the dreamy and bewitching darkwave debut single “Mirror Twin”, Harsh Symmetry announces the release of a full-length debut Display Model on Fabrika Records, home of Selofan, Lebanon Hanover, and She Past Away, whose own Doruk Öztürkcan mixed and mastered the LP. With a vocal style reminiscent of Cocteau Twins collaborator Cinder (This Mortal Coil, Cindytalk), and Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen, Harsh Symmetry’s Julian Sharwarko is the epitome of old-school and…
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Ikon – Everyone Everything Everywhere Ends
Ikon – Everyone Everything Everywhere Ends Label: Dark Vinyl Records – DV61Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: GermanyReleased: 10 Feb 2017Style: Darkwave This is the European Version of the new IKON album, which was originally released in Australia in 2014 in a limited edition and sold out / deleted since last year. Influenced by bands like Joy Division and New Order IKON released their first 7” in 1992 and now, after many albums and tours, they are going to celebrate their 25 anniversary with selected gigs in 2017. Lineup: Chris McCarter , Dino Molinaro, Clifford Ennis and David Burns. Review Gothic Rock / Damien Thorn :….This is an album that grasps…
