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Lights Out Asia mixes electronica and shoegazer moods on their third album, Eyes Like Brontide. Brontide is the vibration from an earth tremor and Lights Out Asia send shudders both heroic and foreboding. The foreboding aspect you get from titles like "Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl." The heroic part comes from the arc of that composition. It starts with Gothic chords and Latin voices that sound like an oblivion mass before slowly emerging into surging guitars, hell bound rhythms and Chris Schafer's anguished vocal. Despite some nice vocal touches by Schafer, who usually buries his voice in the mix, Lights Ou
Lights Out Asia mixes electronica and shoegazer moods on their third album, Eyes Like Brontide. Brontide is the vibration from an earth tremor and Lights Out Asia send shudders both heroic and foreboding. The foreboding aspect you get from titles like "Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl." The heroic part comes from the arc of that composition. It starts with Gothic chords and Latin voices that sound like an oblivion mass before slowly emerging into surging guitars, hell bound rhythms and Chris Schafer's anguished vocal. Despite some nice vocal touches by Schafer, who usually buries his voice in the mix, Lights Out Asia is predominantly instrumental. More often they rely on audio verité like the police scanner recordings that open "The Wrong Message Could End You." Like most of the songs on Eyes Like Brontide, it's composed on an epic scale, shifting through movements that take you from minor key moods to major key crescendos. Even at their darkest, Lights Out Asia usually emerge with something more affirming. You can hear echoes of The Cocteau Twins in songs like "MIR" and "Psiu! Puxa!" with their insistent rhythms and jangling guitars drenched in reverb and surrounded by swirling synthesizers. Lights Out Asia is making music that makes the end of the world seem like a good thing. -- John Diliberto
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Manufacturer: N5md
Release date: 19 July 2008
EAN: 0702224116122 UPC: 702224116122
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