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CIRCUS OF THE SCARS - Home is where the hurt is

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Beta-Lactam Ring Records mt041
Release Year: 2003
Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00
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Soweit wir wissen das erste Album dieses amerikanischen Duos, die mit ihrem Titel die Sache so ziemlich auf den Punkt bringen. Auf 10 Stücken breiten sie hier melancholisch-gebrochene Songs aus, die manchmal fragil-emotional, manchmal bizarr-experimentell ausgerichtet sind: Sprechgesang, harmonische Synthflächen & Pianolines, aber auch rauhe & weirdo Samples, elektro-rhythmische Abschnitte, schizophrene Stimmensalate, disharmonische parts.. das ganze schwebt irgendwo im luftleeren Raum, vielleicht eine etwas gebrochene, elekronisch-bizarre Version der LEGENDARY PINK DOTS mit Anklängen an COIL...

“This answers the question; what if This Mortal Coil were produced by Hafler Trio? Why, there would be a circus, and in that circus there would be scars. One of the more outright musical projects from the Beta-lactam stable offers a mysterious collection of songs interlaced with unsettling sound collages and tone poems. Piano and keyboard melodies dominate, but are all well dipped in a dark haze (not quite a purple haze, but a dark haze nonetheless). The weave of "HIWTHI" is tight but the stitch of each track is quite distinctive. Moody, to be sure, but with bursts of beats and other surprises snaking in and out of the shadows. Vocally, there are hints of LDC (Latter Day Coil). While lush in places, the production retains a fine grit that cuts all the deeper the scars upon thars.” [from the press release]

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