| Days are Nights - Sounds of the End |
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| Written by Admin the Administrator | |
| Saturday, 30 December 2006 | |
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Band: Days are Nights Album: Sounds of the End Label: GpC Produções Tracks: 11 What do you call a band that sounds like a mix between The Cure, Lycia/Estraya, BATZZ in the Belfry and Dead Artist Syndrome? Days are Nights, that's what you call it. Never heard of Days are Nights? Well, that's perhaps because this band is from São Paulo, Brazil. Yes Brazil, the same country as Individual Industry, Lilian Vaz, Uniglory and City Lights. I'll tell you a bit more about the band before i take a look at the album: Days are Nights is basically the solo project of Dennis 80's who used to play in the short lived band "Dancing in Tears". Dennis is a musically very talented young man who has a gift for creating one of the darkest atmospheres in Gothic music that you've ever heard. What makes this project even more special is that he not only writes songs in Portuguese (his native language) and in English, but he even has a track in German! Now that you know a bit more about the band, it's time to take a look at the album: This is a very dark sounding album, and i mean VERY dark! In fact, it's one of the darkest in the Christian Goth scene that i have ever heard. The lyrics deal with faith, death, war and above all, hope. The music is well composed and played, and even though the music can never be called up-tempo, there is a lot of variation from track to track. The beginning of the album can sound a bit lenthy to some, but after listening to the album a couple of times you come to realize that it's just right and that the songs are intended to be the way they are and that there is no other way of playing them. A little past halfway the album the sound changes from almost ethereal to a sound that is closer to The Cure and Dead Artist Syndrome but it still fits into the overall mood of the album and that is quite an accomplishment. The album ends with one last dark, almost ethereal track to make sure you are left with the feeling that you've had a great night out in a haunted mansion. I have only one point of criticism about this album, and that is that in some tracks the vocals are a bit out of tune and that is too bad. If the singer would have done a few more takes of the vocal track on those songs, i know he would eventually have gotten it right because his singing is almost flawless in most other tracks. In spite of that imperfection, i still think the album is very enjoyable and i can recommend it to everyone who likes the darker side of Goth music. I don't rate albums, but if i had to rate it on a scale from 1 to 10, i would be giving it an 8 because i'm left with a very good feeling about this album and i can't wait to see and hear what the next album will be like. Just don't be afraid of what goes bump in the night, it's only Days are Nights. Trackback(0)
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