Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Continuing its focus on the ethereal side of goth, Projekt Records issues its answer to the Hyperium label's popular Heavenly Voices series: 13 tracks of sublime exoticism, from familiar faces (Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Lycia) to newcomers (Rajna, Mira) to long-lost friends (Stoa, Love Is Colder Than Death). Rajna, a French trio, are perhaps the compilation's most arresting contributors. Mining the same musicultural vein as Dead Can Dance (the resemblance is truly uncanny), they float Jeanne Lefebvre's soaring vocals atop hammered dulcimer, flute, strings, and tribal percussion. Mira, the disc's other notable newcomers, take a stab at rock of the shoe-gazer variety, winding up somewhere between the fuzzy guitar sound of My Bloody Valentine and the gentle sway of Love Spirals Downwards. Fans of the genre will want this album for the few tracks that are unavailable elsewhere, but curiosity seekers will find much to like in this sampler of goth's more benevolent practitioners. --Steve Landau
Seireenia,Various Artists,Projekt Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,Dark Ambient,Goth Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop Collections
Rock Music:
Recommended Music:
Mozart Collection: 100 Masterpieces, Vol. 3
Lady Sings the Blues [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Keep Their Heads Ringin' [CD-single] [Explicit Lyrics]