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Losing Today Reviews 5-14-04

05.14.04 (1:35 pm) [edit]

Here's a recent review I wrote for LT that they just published today. The new (hard) issue of LT is due out in June.

[url=http://www.swirlysound.com/bo...]BOUDOIR[/url]
CURRENCY OF THE SOUL
[url=http://www.pandaimonium.de/](Pandaimonium Records)[/url]

Since the release of Hyperium’s Heavenly Voices collection in 1993, many bands have laid claim to a branch of the same family tree, and Boudoir is no exception. Their debut CD Currency of the Soul, released by Pandaimonium Records, (the label headed by ethereal pioneers Clan of Xymox), represents an impressive offering of ten tracks revolving around typically gothic themes: lust, sorrow and alienation. Musically, Boudoir walks the same paths of such predecessors as Dead Can Dance, Chandeen, Ataraxia and Black Tape for A Blue Girl, while also adding a slightly more electronic, sampled twist to their arrangements, thereby likely appealing to fans of such Heavenly Voices mainstays as Love is Colder Than Death and Sleeping Dogs Wake. Consisting solely of Ala Sharon’s echoed vocals and Damon Fries’ soaring guitars, tracks like the opener “Unalone” and “Maybe Yesterday” are melancholy dances in gauzy ether. The release’s big surprise, however, comes in the form of a remake of the Buzzcock’s classic “What Do I Get?” Not only is the appearance of this song unexpected, but also Boudoir’s take on the decidedly punk creation is both stirring and intriguing. In general, this is a melancholy and dreamy collection of songs that achieves what Boudoir set out to create: a dark and textured album evocative of the dawn of ethereal music.

posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (1:03 pm)

Not sure I'd describe xymox as ethereal dude. you know better than I though.

posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (4:35 pm)

Reply to: newbie

how would you describe them?

posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (5:21 pm)

gloomy, gothic, fast beat analog Euro-dance/synth-pop music.

posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (5:21 pm)

I really love your blog by the way, perhaps we can email sometime?

posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (5:25 pm)

Maybe newbie... have you ever seen "say anything?"

posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (5:27 pm)

Newbie... don't you see them as branches from the same tree? Does Xymox have to be ethereal in order for other bands to have been influenced by them ~ particularly if Xymox members started this label?

To be honest, I'm not a big Xymox fan... I only have a couple of songs here and there, but I've read so much about them supports what I said... was I misinformed?

posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 05.14.04 (7:27 pm)

a few of their songs may be ethereal, but even those are a little on the heavier side. ethereal to me would be, well you know.