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Artist | Confrontational
Title | A Dance Of Shadows
Genre | Darkwave
Source | Tape
Label | Not on a label Rip | 04.08.2015
Catalog | N/A Time | 40:46
Bitrate | 261kbps Size | 76.75mb
Freq | 48.0kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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A1. Shadowdancing 04:58
A2. Flat / Line 05:02
A3. Like A Curse 05:02
A4. One Last Kiss 04:41
A5. Script 02:04
B1. Forsaken 02:48
B2. To Live & Die On The Air 06:13
B3. You'll Be Mine 04:39
B4. Montionless (Bonus Track) 05:19
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Confrontational has done it again with a monolithic, spooky
album thats perfect. A Dance Of Shadows is heavy and ominous,
a set of tracks that will evoke images of both the dance
floor and the horror movie screen.
The starter track, Shadowdancing, plays off the albums title
and is both suitably ominous and alluringly catchy. Flat/Line
has a catchy vocal line and some great echoing tones that
blend well together. Its a neatly assembled song that still
seems very organic, and the stops and starts are cleverly
done to keep you listening.
The transition to the next track, Like A Curse, is smooth and
natural. This song also has some dark and emotional lyrics,
brooding yet oddly endearing. One Last Kiss leads in with
vague gong-like sound effects and then flies right out of the
gate at you. The instrumentation on this one is a bit more
sparse, but it is tastefully and skillfully arranged to the
point where it must have been intentional. The excellent
addition of some very realistic nylon-guitar-string type
instruments flow in about midway to add some thickness.
Script is another atmosphere builder, dominated by a
monologue this time. The message is a bold expansion of the
concept Shakespeare promoted with the line all the world's a
stage, and all the men and women merely players in Act II
Scene VII of As You Like It. After a few more moments, we are
dropped into a morose realm with Forsaken, a fantastic
instrumental piece and definitely my favorite on the album.
The track is another example of a synthwave artist building a
piece that could be considered movie music.
Forsaken could be the title theme to a particularly hopeless
and dismal ghost movie. To Live and Die On The Air takes its
time to build up, but the track is so well timed and
orchestrated that you can almost imagine a conductor waving
his hands. It is the longest track on the album, and
Confrontational takes a lot of that time to play around with
some great solos and dynamic changes. It is a very easy one
to get lost in. The pace picks up significantly as the album
is rounded off by Youll Be Mine. It is an excellent cap for
the album, with yearning and faint menace throughout.
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