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The silly and sleepless Mistress McCutchan, otherwise known in the real world simply as Laura, created Morbid Outlook in August of 1992, while still a gothling in high school.

She is a freelance web designer, but also makes time to also design and make all sorts of stuff, DJ, dance as one-half of Serpentina as well as direct her Toronto-based troupe, The Serpentina North Ensemble. She is vegan, but not one of the pushy ones. When not working like a maniac, she can be found becoming one with the couch, especially if Three’s Company is on.
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In Rotation, October 2004
Mistress McCutchan
Delirium – The Best of Delirium
Track Listing: Flowers Become Screens, Silence, Paris, Truly (Wise Buddah Radio Edit), Terra Firma, Incantation, After All,Underwater (Above & Beyond’s 21st Century Remix), Run For It, Remembrance, You & I, Innocent, Euphoria (Firefly), Silence (Above & Beyond’s 21st Century Remix).
For more information, check out www.nettwerkamerica.com
Everything we know and love from one of the forerunners of this genre: swirly, girly and dancey ethereal. If you don’t own any Delirium cds, I think this is a great album to get a feel of their overall discography. Two new tracks, Paris and You and I, as well as a special remix of Silence have been added.
Amber Spyglass – Accelerating Parcae
Track Listing: Pearls of Blue, Red Dust, Hand in Position, Little Things, Silent Ravine, Catalyst Groove, I’m Afraid of Americans, Her Dark Swan, Divide, Venus in the 8th House, In White.
I quite enjoyed their 5 song e.p., but the first full-length album from this outfit is disappointing. While the music fits beautifully into the genre of ethereal, a la Claire Voyant and early Love Spirals Downwards, Kelly Godshall’s vocals fall flat and off-key frequently. Not even the Bowie cover, I’m Afraid of Americans, redeems this album.
For more information and mp3’s, check www.amberspyglass.net
Moonlight Cathedral
Track Listing: Fearful Symmetry - Lead Us, Wyrmwood the Legacy - Voices, The Awakening - Martyr, The Last Dance - Whisper, Dead Artist Syndrome - Christian America, Visionaire - Fragmented, Undish - Letter No. 4 from “Letters from the Earth”, Paradoxx - Vampyr, Bridgeshadows - Computer Dreams, Creta - Silence, Veer Chasm - You Pt. 2: The Chameleon’s Rise, Tara Vanflower - This Womb Like Liquid Honey, Grode - Nedtegnet Fra Ensom Virkelighet, Saviour Machine - The End.
The debut release from Cold Fusion Music is a good variety of both industrial and classic gothic. Moonlight Cathedral is distributed by Christian electronic underground supporters, Flaming Fish Music. Christian underground or not (because I know the God thing can instantly close ears), this is not a bunch of Bible-thumping, but a solid album for your collection, especially if you’re feeling nostalgic about good old-fashioned gothic rock.
Björk – Medúlla
Track Listing: Pleasure Is All Mine, Show Me Forgiveness, Where Is The Line?, Vökuró, Oll Birtan, Who Is It, Oceania, Submarine, Sonnets/Unrealities XI Desired Constellation, Ancestors, Mouth’s Cradle, Mivikudags, Triumph Of A Heart.
You really have to like Bjork’s unique voice to appreciate this album. This album, albeit instrumentally sparse is richly layered in vocals, both processed and natural. Even as a fan, this takes a couple listenings to grow on you, although Where is the Line and Oceania instantly stood out as favorites for me.
For more information, check out www.bjork.com. The video for Oceania can be seen on launch.com
Resurrection 2
Track Listing: The Metro - HMB, Aperture (Slither Mix) - cut.rate.box, Night Riders (part III bOOl3 mix) - Stromkern, Secrets and Dreams - La Floa Maldita, Makina Mata - State of the Union, You Complicate Things (look the other way) - Trigger10d, Vorbei (FAP7 Remix) - Beborn Beton, Divina - Deceptio Mentis, Pecking Order - Monstrum Sepsis, Alysium (PTII Mix) - PTI, Blink - Regenerator.
The next in the series of compilations from this Chicago-based label. I loved this on the first listen – Resurrection 2 is a really tight industrial dance compilation (read that track listing again!).
For more information, check www.wtiirecords.com