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  • "Ghosts......" reviews

    http://amplifiedstrawberry.blogspot.com/2011/03/sleeping-peonies-ghosts-and-other.html

    Rating: 81 / 100

    Somehwere along Velvet Cacoon's footsteps, Sleeping Peonies appeared last year with their first demo Rose Curl, Sea Swirl. It was very positively received among some Clair Cassis, Velvet Cacoon and Alcest devotees. It wouldn't be a big surprise to mention that Sleeping Peonies' style of Black Metal lies somehwere between these bands. It has the droning sound of the earlier on this blog discussed Clair Cassis, but the dreaminess often found within Neige's compositions, mixed with some Lovesliescrushing/Astrobrite tender fuzziness. All with all Sleeping Peonies creates a fairly original blend of tones, but obviously inspired (also lyrically) by Josh/Clair Cassis, it even makes me wonder if Josh isn't involved in any way.

    This EP is basically the Krysanthoney sequel to their first EP, which was nothing more but a very fine introduction to Sleeping Peonies' sound: a droning bass, which often makes me seasick, delayed drums (what the fudge? yes, really) and a blurred wall of fuzzy guitars. New on this EP are the occasionally appearing samples and the introduction of a synth. Vocals are tortured moans, mixed to the background, of course drenched in reverb and delay, like practically every other instrument on this EP. This might make it hard to distinguish every instrument, every melody, but who the fudge ever wants to hear a single melody when your ears could be pampered with the harmony of hundreds.

    This is black metal at its absolute sweetest, it's one big noisy, fuzzy haze of rumbling violence, but with a gentle marination of chocalate, cinnamon and brown sugar. Very few will ever top Babysbreath by Lovesliescrushing or Astrobrite's Tearjerker, but this EP approaches a lot closer than most of the other albums made in this style.

    Nothing solves iterated integrals better than cinnamon,

    Selwin.

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  • if there was one quintessential depiction of what “dreamo” sounds like, SLEEPING PEONIES nailed it like a reverse spinning piledriver. although my idea of “dreamo” was imagined quite some time before this band’s first release, it seems our astral consciousness linked at one point because all other literation of SLEEPING PEONIES fall short, and simply do not fly;
    a narrow, polychromatic lit tunnel built of walls of anxiety-inducing resonance, a floor of cushioning solace, and a ceiling perspiring cold drops of decadent honey. alas, there is no exit from this tunnel (all the honey you could ever want :3). after much deserved escapism, yr left pondering a more meaningful existence, one strung up by fine lace and dripping w royal jelly.
    i can’t help but notice the similarities between “GHOSTS, AND OTHER THINGS” song titles in comparison to VELVET CACOON or CLAIR CASSIS. the whole organic & overly accented lavishes ordeal, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing i suppose. imagination is quite the opposite, and i implore all you cognitively cornered simpletons to explore yr own as SLEEPING PEONIES adorably has in this release – which is available for purchase on the grand label KHRYSANTHONEY of recent birth.

    DREAMO AMNESTY (a new and really good blog, they have also reviewed life in the dark, beau navire, i am a lake of burning orchids, mamaleek etc)

    blehhh
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  • also, what is with the constant comparisons with alcest? i don't get it at all.

    and also, i love how i'm supposed to have collaborated with josh ;)

    i wish.

    blehhh
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  • Sleeping Peonies describe their sound on this latest release as 'blackened shoegaze', and it is certainly fitting. At this point, we may as well give up this semblance of a universal genre/subgenre system and start describing releases on an individual basis anyway. This group specializes in contrasting pop melodies with pained wails, accenting the whole package with walls of guitar noise, tremolo riffs and blasting percussion. While there are similarities to Alcest and similar acts, the distinctions far outweigh the commonalities.

    The opening track reprises many themes from the prior release, swirling them around chaotically, as memories struggling to maintain their form; it makes for the most intriguing and spellbinding introductory track I've heard recently. This ethereal recollection drifts slightly into the second track, eventually plunging into a the darkest of shoegaze hazes, permeated by frantic drum work. The flow and momentum of Ghosts, and Other Things evokes a sense of tumbling down fragmented memories where warm nostalgia is always out of reach and the brief moments of clarity are shattered by their own fragility.

    Yet as this all-too-short EP continues, the broken memories begin to mend, eventually attaining cohesion by the time Autumnbloom and Lavender concludes. This effect is achieved brilliantly through more articulate guitar work along with the vocals and drums subtlety falling back. The short instrumental, Ebbs and Floes, spoils the transition somewhat, but it's forgivable given the track's sheer beauty. Black Lanterns serves as a denouement of the trip, illuminating the murky first act before allowing the music to gracefully fade away with In Rain we Disappear.

    It is something of a wonder when musicians manage to pack something so ambrosial into a relatively short amount of time. Sleeping Peonies has done it twice now with Ghosts, and Other Things. They have a true talent in weaving a captivating experience, one that should not be missed. Like the previous EP, this disc will be available in a limited pressing, so prospective owners should not wait to order. Though also like Rose Curl, Sea Swirl, it's possible that this EP will be made available on the Khrysanthoney website once the stock is depleted. Either way, there's no reason to miss out on owning this treasure.

    - Zeroumus - Rate Your Music . com

    blehhh
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  • http://dontcountonitreviews.blogspot.com/2011/03/sleeping-peonies-ghosts-and-other.html

    Band: Sleeping Peonies
    Country: Norfolk, United Kingdom
    Style: Shoegaze/Atmospheric Black Metal
    Label: Khrysanthoney

    I remember reviewing the first release from Sleeping Peonies last year and thinking it was decent, but some reviews I've read of this new album says it's improved a lot. Apparently this new release has them moving into a less metal direction, which was something I think I mentioned in my review before. Though I'm not a huge shoegaze fan, it's something I can certainly appreciate.

    From the opener, Anomie, the band definitely show a more focused sound, less simply wandering sounds, and more direction. The distortion, lo-fi production, and screamed vocals remain, but the instrumentation and atmospheres recall a more poppy sensibility, and this goes for the entire disc not just this one song. While I personally found the vocals a bit irritating, the atmospheres and overall performance instrumentally was actually really solid. Tracks like Wicklewood Haze or Autumnblood and Lavender have some really captivating sounds on them, something that really drew me in. I also really enjoyed the nice piano sounds used on here as well, they proved to be more of an upbeat style rather than a melancholic one.

    Overall, I actually enjoyed this quite a bit, it's not something I could see myself listening to on repeat, but it's certainly a step up from their first release. The atmospheres are definitely where I see the band's strength lying. If you like shoegaze, atmospheric, or black metal, check this out.

    Overall Score: 7.5

    Highlights: Pashmina Veils, Black Lanterns

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  • http://autumnraincoffee.blogspot.com/2011/03/sleeping-peonies-ghosts-and-other.html

    Sleeping Peonies is a band from England which have a fuzzy, somewhat light and dreamy sound. Their music is influenced by a lot of different genres and sounds nothing like any bands in the scene/genre/whatever. The only band that comes closest to their sound is Morose from UK, I think so atleast.

    They've released a demo in 2010 called "Rose Curl, Sea Swirl" which was one of my favourite releases that year. This EP continues what they started in the demo but makes it sound even better. Absolutely beautiful melancholic melodies mixed with fuzzy production and great harsh vocals. Highly recommended to anyone who likes shoegaze, dream pop and "blackgaze". Actually, it's recommended to just about everyone who appreciates great atmospheric music.

    Download it and if you like it purchase it. Don't be a dick who doesn't support great artists who deserve it.

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  • Yet another!:

    http://tomorrows-music.blogspot.com/2011/03/sleeping-peonies-ghosts-and-other.html

    Sleeping Peonies is a relatively fresh band in the so called blackgaze or shoegaze influenced black metal genre(or whatever you want to call it, it's quite hard to find a name for this sound). They released an EP called "Rose curl, Sea swirl" last year and surprised a lot of post black metal fans with their thick and somewhat raw but at the same time melodic sound.

    The band is now back with a second release named "Ghosts, and other things".

    The formula is pretty much the same but the production quality and the songwriting are a lot better. The main man, Nic, hails from Norfolk, England and his music reflects a lot of influences. Some of which are: dream pop, screamo and ambient black metal band Velvet Cacoon.

    I think with this new EP Sleeping Peonies will become hugely popular, although just in a small circle. They have that fresh sound, something new but you can hear that this will be an instant classic. Check it out yourself if you don't believe me and tell me your opinion in the comments:

    http://sleepingpeonies.bandcamp.com/

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  • Ghosts is a simply stellar release that gets better with every listen. there is so much great little detail, and i really love the air of ambiance around every track. this is so much more mature and evolved from Rose curl, and i am really hoping i can purchase a copy of this soon. i am truly amazed by this release

    np: Sleeping Peonies - Autumnbloom and Lavender "Ghosts, and Other Things"

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  • Here's a new review from Aquarius records!

    (Note: Sleeping Peonies doesn't really care to be compared to Alcest, and quite honestly I don't blame them. Neither one are really comparable in any reasonable way.)

    www.aquariusrecords.org

    We all loved the blurred washed out buzz of weirdo black metallers Velvet Cacoon. Even the non metalheads around here. And when they called it quits, thus was born Clair Cassis, which was like an even more fuzzy, dreamy, and poppy version of Velvet Cacoon. But if you ever wished even Clair Cassis was more dreamy, more shoegazey and WAY more lush and poppy, well then Sleeping Peonies are for you.

    Most folks missed out completely on their debut, Rose Curl, Sea Swirl, we only managed to get a tiny handful for the store, but we loved what we heard, and wanted to make sure that the next SP record would get reviewed and listed.

    And so here it is.

    Like the debut, this is a lush, smeared, soft focus buzzscape that's as much eighties 4AD shimmer as it is black metal buzz, if not more. Sure there are blast beats, and howled vokills, but they drift in thick clouds of warm whirling haze, and lustrous chordal thrum, and most of the more blackened blasts end up fading into sweet sonic swirls, notes are doused in reverb and left to drift in the ether, the sound seesawing between murky buzz and spacious glimmery drift.

    There's also lots of cool weird production, thick corrosive low end rumbles underpinning anguished wails, piano like melodies hovering over deep softly roiling shimmer, bursts of heaviness that are so high in the mix, they causes strange ripple effects as the sound threatens to overwhelm all the other sounds around it, yet even at its heaviest, it's so ethereal and ephemeral, the sound so washed out and woozy, that the black buzz is often rendered more as a sort of blurred doomgaze ambience.

    Within that ambience, swaths of dreampunk drift rife with lilting melodies blossom into heaving Nadja-worthy swells of crumbling distorted rumble, or collapse into gauzy fuzz drenched slo-mo dream doom. There's also a definite cold/new wave vibe, that reminds us of a way more lo-fi, ramshackle, blackened Soror Dolorosa, who themselves are indebted to eighties gloom pop anyway...

    Gorgeous stuff, total blissed out dreampop blackmetal weirdness that should absolutely hit the spot for anyone into Velvet Cacoon, Clair Cassis, Alcest, Amesoeurs, Les Discrets and other purveyors of dreamy buzzy blackness...

    LIMITED TO 150 COPIES!!! House in a nice thick black envelope, with a hand bound 16 page booklet filled with lyrics, and a poster!

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  • There's 'buzz' everywhere

    When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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  • A new one:

    http://ofsoundmindmusic.blogspot.com/2011/03/sleeping-peonies-ghosts-and-other.html

    Fuck. Yes. Ghosts and Other Things brings yet again the tortured, drowning vocals and shoegaz-y-sweet-and-dreamlike-natured-yet-depressing music. If you're a fan of their first EP Rose Curl, Sea Swirl, obviously this new one won't disappoint. If you've never listened to this lovely band, I suggest you do. And I don't care if liking this makes me a hipster SHIT IS SO SWAG.

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  • Sleeping Peonies - Ghosts & Other Things. (9/10 - 93%)

    A fantastic little DIY effort here, released by US label Khrysanthoney (a fresh
    innovative label who seem to engage bands that create dreamy epic atmospheres, which turns out to be a lot of post-rock/shoegaze, punk and pop (yes pop) inspired black metal).
    However, this is from the mind of a young talent who dwells upon our fair shores (and the British Coast line is of massive importance to the Sleeping Peonies sound)!
    What do we have here then? Well, it's a very successful continuation of the
    completely unique sound crafted for the first demo, 'Rose curl, sea swirl' (one of my
    favourite releases of 2010 (what a year it was) ). The music itself is immensely
    descriptive and colourful...
    I'll try dissect it, and what it means to me based on what I know about this
    projects visionary creator -

    First of all, Thick harmonic, rumbling, yearning saw-tooth guitar drones with a
    distant and nautical sound, almost like brass horns, fill and fog the majority of the
    frequential space and help begin to create the picture of a seaside town in its off
    season. This voice feels to me to be the body for the majority of these complex
    compositions. At times it offers a basso continuo-like drone, but others it offers a very
    wide melodic wall which paints something 'schematically vast' in the listeners mind, to me it's almost certainly the expanse of the sea...

    Meanwhile tremolo picked, delay-saturated guitar melodies take the lead voice.
    This is completely epic! Prepare yourself for some hair raising-clenched teeth-eyes
    watering moments. The melodies themselves are not the rising predictable aeolian mode melodies of most generic post-rock. There's a prevalence of a real sense for notes that relate to each other in an almost abstract attempt to communicate something more. To me, this instrument is painting the skies, the clouds, the weather and the birds. All the
    little details I suppose.

    The Bass here is slick, just like on the Demo. It's a very poppy 80's goth bass
    sound and it's immensely charming! This plays a big part in the nostalgic, 'waking from a dream sensation' people have all related to this band.
    The drums are programmed, but treat with so many effects that they sit really
    comfortably in the mix without taking away from the organic sound. The beats and rhythms feel tidal, tumbling up from little fills on the cymbals into blastbeats and then
    tumbling back down into nothing. It's not just a unique programmed-drum sound, It's also apparent the beats themselves are quite atypical and a signature part of why Sleeping Peonies are an entity of its very own.

    The vocals are shouted/screamed and are performed with passion, giving this EP
    the raw, emotional energy black metal needs to become successful. Some describe these vocals as screamo... something I'm not too familiar with and probably wouldn't listen to if isolated away from the black metal element, but the stylistic marriage works really well for me. The vocals place the composer behind Sleeping Peonies as a character in the setting which is painted by the rest of the instruments. Spoken word sections are delivered by a female voice, adding a certain mystique and narrative to the discourse of the journey.

    Other various instruments come into play such as a piano sound with very short
    accents put on the notes, but treated with a lot of reverb and delay. This is the most
    melodic and 'pop' part of the band and perhaps the most attractive element to first time listeners, as it's avant-garde and dreamy melody lines which contain no dissonance create the huge contrast when the waves of drums and guitars come crashing back in. Sigur Ros would be a fair comparison. No really.

    There's also a big slab of pad sounds filling out the chords, which works really
    well in the sense that the previously mentioned guitar has such a thick and brutal sound, it helps discern the voicing of the chords and increases the already vast detail to the ensemble of sounds.

    The production is completely suitable for the job at hand, and mainly I should
    mention the use of DELAY! Yes, this record is full of it. Somewhere in all the swirling
    rhythmical milliseconds of decaying sounds, little accidental esoteric worlds are made which in the most atmospheric and powerful sections, seem to dissolve and metamorphosize into other strange and beautiful galaxies. This is a more emotive and abstract part of the atmosphere, although in one sense it's visual as it creates an accoustic, like the sounds are bouncing off a cliff face, or within a cave, or a hollow abandoned lighthouse - but mainly it's just creating a sort of spontaneous, aleatoric event which induces a subconscious wonderment.

    I've been excited about this release for a while and it exceeded expectations.
    There's so much to get your head around when experiencing this music and it's rewarding to let your focus shift through the different voices in the composition, as well as just zoning out to let this creation wash over you! Looking forward to seeing this perfomed live, hopefully in the not too distant future.

    Gavin - A Forest Of Stars

    blehhh
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  • Excellent review!

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  • I've been combing the net daily for new reviews. If any member of this group happens upon one not posted then please post it along with a direct link! :-)

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  • Review by Toadsoup / RYM

    Seriously folks. This is the bomb.

    I gave Sleeping Peonies major props for their first demo but discounted them a bit for the shaky quality of the production parts and a few dents in the mix (drums especially).

    With "Ghosts, and other things" Sleeping Peonies seems to have ironed those problems out somewhat. The production is much more crisp and the drums are a lot more prominent in the mix this time around. Still, they went for that lo-fi, do-it-yourself sound which is clearly meant to give the proverbial middle finger to everyone like me who probably wanted something a little cleaner.

    But anyway who cares, right? Low production quality or not (and the production is certainly much better now), I found this all too short EP to be nothing short of amazing.

    This time the gang from the dreary coasts of Norfolk, England do a little less black metal. They've seriously toned down their aggressive parts and blast beats opting instead for some gently buzzing shoegaze styled passages and tremolo picking, and even spoken female parts used prominently in a couple of tracks. You can tell that Sleeping Peonies also had a plan for coherency. Where the songs on the first EP seemed to go off in their little different directions and noodle around a bit all the ones here follow each other in sequence, connecting to tell the kind of story you'd find in a good book.

    Here's a simple breakdown and rating of each track:

    Anomie : The introduction. It starts with a dense wall of guitars and chorus which grows and grows and grows, and as it reaches its climax out comes Nic's trademark off kilter voice inviting us to come along to experience the tale unfolding before our ears. A very emotional start to this great album. Rating: 10/10

    Pashmina Veils : This is about as aggressive as the EP ever gets (which isn't very aggressive at all!). A short tune with a repeated stanza and some good hooks.

    Pashmina Veils" is also noticeably more "urgent" sounding than the other tunes on "Ghosts....", the tempo is faster and there are far fewer breaks between passages: but I guess that was a space in the story needing to be filled. Good song all around. Rating: 8.75/10

    Lisps and Candyfloss Wisps : I'm pretty certain "Lisps and Candyfloss Wisps" is the oldest track of the 8, and I say that because the production elements are much more reminiscent of "Rose curl, Sea swirl" and because it seems somewhat ill fitting in context with the newer ones. Whatever the case may be this is an outstanding track. It also has the most Brit-punk vibe going. One last hoorah from the early days of Peonies. Rating: 8.25/10

    Wicklewood Haze : While the bass doesn't fit as prominently in "Ghosts...." as it did in "Rose curl...." this track here, "Wickelwood Haze", features those heavy heavy basslines found so frequently throughout the debut. "Wickelwood...." is a dark and challenging song with some of the finest melodies I've heard in a long while. Rating: 10/10

    Ebbs and Floes : This short instrumental concludes the first chapter of the story, and so now the second chapter begins.... Rating: 8/10

    Autumnbloom and Lavender : "Autumnbloom...." is to "Ghosts..." what "....Mermaids" was to the first EP: the epic track, the one that's slowed down, drawn out and unfolds to tell a beautiful yet tragic part of the story. A song of immense complexity and passion, one that I would safely say that represents the consciousness of "Ghosts, and other things" the most. Rating: 10/10

    Black Lanterns : Have you ever heard pure shoegaze music coupled with blast beats and black metal/screamo styled vocals? "Black Lanterns" is about as close as you can expect to get. Though the result sounds kind of odd at first I think it was definitely pulled off well so I can't complain. It would actually be interesting to hear Sleeping Peonies do more numbers like this one, although I would prefer the blast beats be excluded next time. Rating: 8.5/10

    In Rain We Disappear : The album's closing scene. It's brief but stirring and optimistic; the final moments of this story end with the Peonies signature buzz growing to great heights then coming to a sudden, climatic close. The book is closed, but not without a happy ending. Rating: 8/10

    Don't be a putz: if you downloaded the album and liked it then consider supporting the band and its label by buying a copy of "Ghosts, and other things". I've got this fantastic album in the very top spot of my 2011 favorites list. I don't expect anything will be coming along to replace it either.

    Overall rating: 9.3/10

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  • Another RYM review (not too complex, but at least he didn't compare Sleeping Peonies to Alcest :-):

    I met a guy who said blackgaze isn't a real genre but pointless crap, the other day. I forced him to listen to this album. Afaik, he drowned in the the deeps of abyssal symphony of dreamy tremolo riffs and depressive black metal vocals. Now, he's in a deep coma at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by mysterious sea creatures no-one has ever seen, experiencing an eternal sleep. I don't know if he has changed his opinion about blackgaze. I do envy him, though, for this is what heaven would sound like.

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  • http://reeksofeffort.wordpress.com

    ~~ We’ve got a real odd one here. Norfolk’s Sleeping Peonies play some kind of weird hybrid of shoegaze, 90s screamo, gothic keyboards and a dash of black metal. It’s primal, emotional music, kinda like if Saetia got all gothic and flowery and ornate and pushed the wounded howls towards the back of the mix .
    Trying to avoid lumping this in with the recent “blackgaze” trend ( the band themselves claim to take far more cues from hardcore/screamo) but with the occasional blastbeats and lo-fi fuzz covering everything it seems inevitable that this’ll attract fans of Alcest/Velvet Cacoon etc.
    Not perfect (the keyboards kinda falter when being used as a lead instrument rather than as a backing) but it’s nice to see a British band be aggressive, forward-thinking and oddly beautiful all at once. ~~

    blehhh
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  • http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=225026&show=10&start=40

    If you are into shoegazey black metal, then Sleeping Peonies's Ghosts, And Other Things (their second EP) is definitely a worthy addition to Alcest, et al. Most of the guitars, and I'm assuming synths, are used to create a dark ambient gaze which is propelled along by the echoes of blast beats and some guy's tortured howls from the abyss. The cumulative effect is a bit gothy but rather chilling and beautiful. I didn't think this subgenre had too much left to offer, not that I really care, but these guys have a lot of potential and a lot of ideas. That can be slightly problematic for this "EP, because the songs are relatively short but it seems like they're floating around ideas and have quite a lot of room to grow. I'm excited to hear what's in store for there actual first full-length.

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  • http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=284262&show=25&start=75

    I don't like to put something I've only listened to this recently on the list, but it's equally of quality with their previous EP Rose Curl, Sea Swirl, which was already goddam staggering. This band is really off to great things...

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  • From RYM:

    There have seriously been times when I've considered just cruising around Norfolk blasting this serene fog straight into the Ozone layer simply as a thank you to the Sleepies. I could picture it now as old ladies walked by smiling with tears of joy cracking their pastry-cemented faces as they were thickly gelled into the smog of melancholy riffs and screams. The little synth of track 3 making them climax for the first time in fifty years...

    Seriously man, that fucking riff on track 3.

    A pounding of distortion tearing up the road as bikers begin to fly into the winter snow, waltzing with carbon and mating with cheese as the mish mash voids them of all emotions but contentment; and at the same time acknowledging suffering as an inevitable shitty poeticy half broken bollock.

    Then Sleeping Ponies awake from their slumber and make eye contact with me as I drive by the tiny outhouse that they all sleep in, the lady says some shit and they haul themselves into the mist, sleeping until they return with the greatest blackgaze album ever made; one made out of Ghosts...one made out of other things.


    The UK isn't really a major contributor to the Blackgaze scene (we also have Morose but they're no longer together) but when we contribute we're practically bringing the BBQ sauce to the picnic while everyone else brings coleslaw. This is such a fluent and non-meandering album that it's hard to really dislike, once you begin listening (assuming you are aware that you actually like the genre) you will be implored to listen the whole way through and take a cold shower in the ambience of their timbre and splendour. Although their is the obvious flaw of a lot of tracks sounding the same, some using similar chord progressions and others using the "Southern girl talking gimmick" a meger too many times, when it flows like a smooth diarrhea of fajita what's not to love?

    Essential Blackgaze listening, regardless of not being innovative.

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  • From RYM (translated from French):

    DEAFHEAVEN you hated? You found CLAIR CASSIS ridiculous? ALCEST does not deserve to live? Well still stay with us, the English SLEEPING Peonies could finally make you appreciate the style.

    After a demo in 2010, where he offers an album of very short duration (28 minutes) but intense and very promising. The label Khrysanthoney once again proves his talent scout and his interest in black who is really after distributing the beginnings of CLAIR and CASSIS PETRYCHOR.

    The eight titles are "shoegazés" to death, with emo environments that encourage withdrawal and lack any aggression. Those who think that the black must be a force here will find that weakness, lightness, spiritual journey and a range of emotions that will give them the shower and will say no, it's not black, and yes , Metal Archives has the right not référencier! (While DARK SANCTUARY and Elend, it goes ...)

    The delicacy is often misinterpreted as an expression too nice for a fan of metal so that when properly used, it provides access to strong feelings. On the Ghosts and Other Things, the music is certainly ALCEST neighbor, but the vocals are full of grief and lost ideals, far from clear and flights soulantes Snow. Desolate voice samples also come to mingle with the melancholic carousel. These mixtures envelop us in a nice bubble but also disturbing. Many images that come to mind images related to the ephemeral, the notions of loss, emptiness around us, passing time and defeated all ...

    It's corny, but there is still an effective offensive that conquered me with every listen and drown in an embarrassing shame. SLEEPING Peonies, it's a romantic movie that you do not particularly want to love, but we did get a tear in spite of ourselves. It's a tear that reminds us a moment the child disappointed that we could be, the man deceived dismissing his feelings low, the dreams we put aside and have come to be dusty.

    And to convince some to dive into the world of peonies SLEEPING, I recall that I usually do not leave me much to have that style with a 3/6 for CLEAR CASSIS, a 4/6 for DEAFHEAVEN and a note that would was below the average if I had to chronicle the journeys of the soul ALCEST. Despite its short duration, this album is a gem. Ten minutes more and it made it a classic shoegaze / post-rock gizmo. We hope it will be for the future!

    http://www.postchrist.com/...her+Things.html

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