To London Or The Lake
Avant! Records
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Night Sins is back
only a year after the release of their first album, to present their
new LP on Avant! Records. “To London or the Lake” is a short
album of Dark Wave/Gothic Rock, keeping things simple and
straight-to-the-point, and it’s tremendously effective!
No time to lose, the
album starts with “Air Dance” and from the beginning you feel the
strong eighties’-beginning of nineties’ classic goth rock
influences. It’s sharp, catchy, and it’s only the beginning. The
title track “To London or the Lake” is a real dancefloor filler,
the guitar seems simple and yet it is amazing, the chorus is very
catchy, and the synths give the song just what it needs of mystery.
Next tack is “Evangeline” and here you will start to feel clearly
the influences of B-movies in this album, thought as “a soundtrack
to The Lost Boys movie if it came out in 2013”. In this song,
synths take the main part, together with the frantic beats, and
images of sci-fi movies of the 80’s will come to your mind. Last
track on the A-side, is the synthetic interlude “Rain”: Lo-fi
sounding synths, just like in the old days, and absolutely
delightful.
The B-side is an
amazing collection of killer tracks, all dark, noxious, and utterly
danceable. In “Bound ‘Round the World”, synths melt with
saturated guitars, both flying over a metronomic drum machine beat.
“Heaven in the Snow” is the soundtrack of an acid trip to the
Carpathian forest, with haunting vocals and a wild beat. “Dear
Marquis” has great bass and guitar lines that play subtly with your
nerves. Finally comes the amazing “Neon Light Intoxicants”, and
although I’ve tried to avoid making comparisons, as Night Sins
really does have its own style, to me this song is like a perfect
tribute to the Sisters of Mercy.
This LP is more
homogenous than the previous one, with clear horror/sci-fi 80’s
movies influences. With it, Night Sins is taking you to London, the
lake, bleak wastelands, and foggy woods at night, confirming it
deserves to be given prominence in the dark music of the New
Millenium.
Guillaume Renard
