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Lacrimas_Profundere-Hope_Is_Here-(SPV_270622_CD)-CD-FLAC-2016-FREGON
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Artist .........: Lacrimas Profundere
Title ..........: Hope Is Here
Genre ..........: Gothic Rock
Style ..........: Rock, Gothic
Label ..........: Oblivion
Language .......: English
Year ...........: 2016
Catalog Number .: SPV 270622 CD
Street Date ....: 08.12.2016
Source .........: CDDA
Encoder ........: FLAC 1.3.1
Grabber ........: EAC
Quality ........: 952 kbps / 44100 Hz / Stereo
Size ...........: 314.83 MB
Tracks .........: 12
Url: https://www.lacrimas.com/
T R A C K L I S T ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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01.The Worship Of Counting Down 06:20
02.My Halo Ground 03:05
03.Hope Is Here 03:44
04.Aramis 03:31
05.A Million Miles 04:26
06.No Man's Land 03:25
07.Pageant 03:55
08.You, My North 04:27
09.Awake 03:55
10.The Path Of Broken Homes 01:20
11.Timbre 03:16
12.Black Moon 04:24
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45:48
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R E L E A S E N O T E S ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
For their 11th full-length, Lacrimas Profundere seem to have emerged
from the stagnancy of middle-of-the-road Gothic arena rock to
produce a sound slightly more compelling, if not entirely vacating
the safe zone in which they'd survived for many years. Rather than
the predictable, driving guyliner chord progressions, I honestly had
no idea what was coming around the bend at any point on this disc,
not because it's wildly dissonant or unique, but because it just
seems to open up and breathe, to let the band put its ideas to tape
without forcing them into corners. Where prior records had offered a
slight variation on the accessible Gothic metal common in the Euro
countries like Germany and Finland, Hope is Here recalls a hybrid of
modern Anathema and elegant British veterans The Mission, with a few
flourishes of anything from prog rock percussion to edgy
country/folk noir.
It works, and it works fairly well. While the band is still not
writing the knockout choruses you'd really need to carry this style
into a broad audience, the production is rich and vibrant, the tunes
always possessing some interesting undercurrent, and despite how
easy it might have been, you can still see a few glints of their
heavier, more metallic, chugging roots shining through the emphasis
on cleaner strings, pianos, scarce electronics, and subtle
orchestration used as an ambient motif to backup the central rock
fundamentals that hold up the tunes. Nothing is really off the
table, with a track like "My Halo Ground" producing a Middle Eastern
vibe through the instruments that steer it, or the title track which
is very much a big acoustic/orchestra piece which really feels like
you're that kid in antlers staring out over the horizon on the
cover. The band knows when to lay into their big chords at precisely
the right moment, and they tender those sequences with simple, added
melodies. Rob Vitacca reminds me a lot of a mix between Wayne Hussey
and Ville Vallo, limited in range but really expressing himself
better here than on most of the Lacrimas records I've experienced.
The beats are also pretty impressive, using interesting patterns to
keep even, simpler, airier moments like the verse of "Aramis" a lot
busier than you'd expect, and it pays off once the chorus arrives.
Hope is Here is more or less a modern, Gothic rock infusion of the
Moody Blues, just right for those moments driving on an open road or
lying under an expansive sky and seeking something that can
encapsulate the experience with just the right, moderate level of
pacing and depth. Production here is scintillating, thorough, and
amazing, and goes a long way to creating compulsion for even the
most vapid riffing they might add to it. Lacrimas Profundere have
found a way to translate the emotions already present in much of
their earlier material to something that is more refined and
rewarding, and even if this puts them in a less traveled space where
bands like Anathema have divided up their own followings, it takes a
lot more guts and dedication than churning out yet another bland
effort like Antiadore or Songs for the Last View...not that either
of those was an expressly bad record, but they were too easily lost
in a crowd of bands that focused in on a sound which was extremely
hot for a few seasons and then sort of dispersed, still practiced
but never really mastered by anyone who hasn't taken it into a
heavier, dirtier Christian Death/Sisters of Mercy direction. This is
a good album, and a good place to build from as we follow that
balloon across the cloudscape.
-autothrall
http://www.fromthedustreturned.com
Note: No hidden track on my cd retail.
Enjoy =>
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