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HEARTS FAIL
THE DYING SEASON
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Anyone should be able to derive great enjoyment from this polished collection of discontent, but those with a penchant for the post-punk era of melodic unrest will get it most. Think Morrissey and REM hatching a great escape while listening to The Chameleons and The Sound and you’re almost there. You’ll be pleased you are.
‘Escape From The Valley Of The Lions’ climbs an irate rope ladder, pausing during the chorus to swing side to side, and sway saucily with a sumptuous charm. The mood is more wired and uneven during the slow flood of ‘Somewhere Else’ and comes vocally from a very Smithsian institute, but the lightly loping guitar sweetens the pill. I prefer the approach to ‘For One Moment’ where they sound like people unaffected by others’ work, and so the imploring chorus has far greater impact, and it’s a real beauty, I assure you, elongated, bound for the stratosphere.
Demure and skinnier, the pale ‘Warning’ swims away from you lazily, all shimmery and quietly opulent. ‘Crash Palace #2’ is a shorter, clenched piece, with an esoteric guitar trail.
‘Left Behind’ is a curious thing, blending quiet detachment with a restless intrigue while the itching ‘Wants And Needs’ glows brightly with guitar wafting over the mellow, doleful patterns, eager for some subtle action and so streams along to a precise cliffhanger.
Seamless and ambitious ‘The Glass Blower’ seeps glamorously, beautifully sorrowful,
And you get a breather with the instrumental ‘Glowing Orange Smile.’ ‘Willing’ ticks over with agitated resistance, lunging out of character and making a stronger impact because of it.
‘The Dying Season’ keeps that tension revolving, the sound flinty yet purring. ‘Out, Out’ then creates a really creepy close with funereal keyboards and sampled vocal pain. Birth, incarceration or exorcism? A very weird ending!
From start to unexpected finish this is something really classy for you to get your ear-like teeth into.
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