(Independent Projects Records) I have never even heard of this band,
yet listening to this deluxe 3-disc (plus beautiful packaging) reissue of their
two late 80s albums, “Dancing to Restore An Eclipsed Moon” and “If Tomorrow I
Were Leaving For Lhasa, I Wouldn’t Stay A Minute More…,” I feel like I grew up
with them. This psychedlic goth that makes Bauhaus-style gloom more richly
beautiful than you’d expect has graceful, tastefully jangle guitar work and
understated drumming and foreboding vocals seems like a classic, important
crucial sound, a key building block in modern dark pop, even if not enough
people knew to play with the blocks. A cloak of midnight darkness (and midnight
monster movies) eclipses, and embraces, the sunshine-drenched psyche flights of
the 60s. A soaring, yet punky,
heavy cover of “The Nile Song”
made me wish I was Moses in the reeds checking this out for the first time. I
got the Spirits!
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