Artist: Irrlicht
Title: Prés Du Miroir
Genre: Darkwave/ Gothic
Release Date: 17th October 2014
Label: Danse Macabre
Album Review
The ninth studio album by IRRLICHT, ‘Prés Du Miroir’, is a classical Darkwave piece of work. If there were a book with rules how to record a typical Darkwave album today, IRRLICHT’s CD should be there as the best example. Somehow it is surprising and amazing that while the others run after the new trends, there are bands who got stuck in the past. What is even more surprising, that there are people, longing to hear that old-modern stuff. And if you are into dark atmospheric synths of the 90s you should absolutely check this album out.
I think a person, more over a musician, has to have a real inner strength and super will to not be tempted by progressive tendencies of our sanctuary. Thousands of thousands musicians today drown in the huge diversity of the software and fail trying to combine the incompatible genres and elements. The idea-fix is to think up something new and fresh. However there are bands like IRRLICHT, which fell in love with particular musical genre, had success with it and just keep doing it through decades. A musician has to have guts to do it and not be afraid of being criticized. But there is nothing bad you could say about IRRLICHT’s work. They do really good material. The mix of German and French sounds really cool. The right decision was also to balance the female vocals close to ultrasound with old-school earthy synthesizers. All in all ‘Prés Du Miroir’ is good Darkwave thing made by all the best traditions.
Tracklist
01. P (intro)
02. Projekt Abgrund
03. La course des rats
04. Abschied
05. En fibre de verre
06. Anderswelt
07. Monocave (OTS)
08. Licht und Zeit
09. Wenn du da bist
10. Dans ce miroir
11. Outro
12. La course des rats (Clubmix)
13. Dans ce miroir (NTL Clubmix)
14. Hoehenflug
Line-up
Daniela Dietz: Vocals
Markus Nauli: Synthesizer, Production
Renato Kienberger: Synthesizer
Website
www.irrlicht.ch / https://www.facebook.com/irrlichtmusik
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 6
Sound: 6
Total: 6 / 10
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