| CD REVIEW Longing For Dawn |
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Band: Longing For Dawn Funeral Doom, it’s one of those genres I adore because of its purity and deepness. Yet again it isn’t that evident to write and record Funeral Doom hymns that are interesting and breath-taking until the final chords. One of the bands that do succeed to create such great opuses is, without any doubt, the Canadian outfit Longing For Dawn. Between Elation And Despair is their third full length, and the four tracks have duration of about fifty two minutes (!). Yet again this long average duration never bores one single moment. Between … goes mainly on in the vein of the former Grau-release, A Treacherous Ascension (review still available on the site), with that painful sound, the same grim and oppressing atmosphere, and those mournful, dark and sorrowful melodies. The tempo, of course, is extremely slow, and the tracks are filled with ambient and floating sounds and soundscapes, which adds a slightly industrialised touch of hallucinogenic morbidity to the cold album. Sometimes those psycho-tropic elements remind me to the masters of mesmerizing Doom-obscurity, Esoteric. In short: praise this new ritual soundtrack of dawn-longing! 90/100 Ivan Tibos. |