In Rotation, April 2002
Mistress McCutchan
Rasputina – Cabin Fever!
Track Listing: Gingerbread Coffin, Thimble Island, State Fair, Sweet Water Kill (The Ocean Song), Remnants of Percy Bass, Rats, Clipped, PJ + Vincent + Matthew + Bjork, My Orphanage, Cross Walk, Hunter’s Kiss, Our Lies, Antique High Heel Red Doll Shoes, Cooped, A Quitter.
The Rasputina hiatus is over. Cabin Fever! is the brilliant and long-awaited new album from our favourite cello-rock trio. This has been on repeat for a couple of weeks now and I am hooked!
Arcanta – The Sacred and the Profane
Track Listing: Amidst the Breakers, No Hope No Fear, The Light of Setting Sunds, Lakshmita, Upanishad, Novalis, Oasis (Desert Cactus Blooming), Remembrance, Sutra, The Magdalen, Surrender (The Sacred and The Profane).
A spiritually-powered aura of music that will take you on your far-away fantasy. Brother Tom’s chants and powerful pipes are second to none.
Where Echoes End – My Sweet Grotesque
Track Listing: Make Up Your Mind, It’s My Advantage, Curse Your Kind, One Silver Dollar, Jesus Stole My Love, rOMANTIC FICTION, What’s it Coming To?, Anyone Out There (?), No One I Know, My Sanctuary, What’s Left to Kill?, Sa Gloire.
Catchy, dark-driven Australian electronica with female vocals that bring a sassier Tori Amos to mind. This album has easily grown on me.
A Murder of Angels – In The Air
Track Listing: Crossing the Threshold, Submerged Beginning, Momentary Vision, Decaying Among the Hopeful, Nothing is Written in Stone, Tomorrow in a Heartbeat, Excavation of the Words, A Trail of Gossamer, To Find Lost Peace.
Don’t let the sweet imagery of this digi-pak cd fool you – this is heavy-handed, dark ambient, or has Middle Pillar has coined “dambient”. Bryin Dall of Loretta’s Doll and Derek Rush deliver darkness that fans of Legendary Pink Dots and Coil will enjoy.
Dark Muse – Sounds from Beyond the Silver Wheel
Track Listing: Queen of the World of Spirits, Certain Angst, Calm, Luna Flow (the Deep), Once Amid a Dream, Silver Wheel Flow, Disorder.
Haunting and dreamy feminine ambient. An elegant evening background.
Black Tape for a Blue Girl – The Scavenger Bride
Track Listing: The Scavenger Bride, Kinski, All My Lovers, Shadow of a Doubt, The Doorkeeper, Floats in the Updrafts, A Livery of Bachelors, Das Liselottenbett, The Lie Which Refuses to Die, The Scavenger’s Daughter, Like a Dog/Letter to Brod, The Whipper, Bastille Day 1961.
The best album Black Tape has put out in years! An incredibly sophisticated concept album, featuring the talents of singer Elysabeth Grant, who has toured with Black Tape extensively, Julia Kent formerly of Rasputina, Michael Laird of Unto Ashes, and Brett Helm of Audra. Bittersweet and beautiful.
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