FAITH & DISEASE Passport to Kunming CD 2003
Product.Nr.: 41940
EAN: 0617026014623
Label: PROJEKT
EUR 13,99
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product description
Artist: | FAITH & DISEASE | |
Title: | Passport to Kunming | |
Format: | CD | |
Year: | 2003 | |
Label: | Projekt | |
Tracklist: |
1 She's Got A Halo 4:37 | |
Info: |
Changing gears seven albums into a bands career isnt unheard of, but when the resulting recording is as spectacular as Faith & Diseases Passport To Kunming, one must stand up and take note. Once heralded for their gothic and ethereal textures and atmospheres, Faith & Disease have evolved into a band defining the best traits of the SadCore genre. Musically compatriots with Low, Idaho or late-period Velvets, their music possesses slow, downcast melodies, eerily isolated guitar or bass complementing the unmistakably beautiful emotions dripping from Dara Rosenwassers heart-broken vocals. Daras sublime voice floats over the melodic, chorus-pedal rich basslines, droney guitars, synth and vintage organ layers,as well as the tasteful, understated percussion. This is compelling SadCore evoking an updated version of classic ethereal-rock. For those of a melancholy turn of mind, Faith & Diseases ethereal, otherworldly chamber music for the damned is an ideal soundtrack. Built around Rosenwassers lovely voice, coupled with Cooleys guitar and bass, Faith & Disease feels like a long, shadowed walk in a deserted patch of woods on a gray, bone-chilling day. Ink19.com The opening track is a gem, Shes Got A Halo evokes a lost classic from early Factory Records-era New Order, propelled by a looping bassline and scratchy guitar. How Far Does The Sky Go veers into dream pop territory, with some fine Bowie Heroes-era guitar coupled with Daras elegiac vocals. Impermanence is druggy 60s psychedelia, with a vintage Hammond organ drone and a middle spoken-word tangent. Girl At The Window is an anomolie track; A romanticized homage to the vinyl era with its lonely distant piano-box and Daras engaging narrative forewarning winters impending gloom..and Faith & Disease should know, they hail from Seattle after all. And once again, Faith & Disease are masterful at knowing when to strip it all down to the bare elements take Made of Wood for instance, a well-placed acoustic guitar strum and Rosenwassers vocals are all that is needed to convey the songs beauty, poetry and vulnerability. |