This project dances among familiar graves while keeping enough of its own charm to not feel redundant. Though at this point, every band has the same guitar tone. I know Robert Smith has an amazing tone, but that does not mean it's the only goth guitar tone. The vocals fade into the background and everything that worked on the first song goes stale when they try to go to the same well too many times.
The pulse to "I've Lost You" does change things up a bit, but the vocals are turning into a one-trick pony, it's a guy who can't sing so has come up with a cool way to mutter the lyrics. It's interesting how a great deal of the revivalist dark wave I have been checking out this month really isn't that, this might be marginally darker than Twin Tribes, by a very slim margin. "I Crave Only You" has a better groove, but the vocals are boring as hell. They need more effects on them as they come across as being flat.
The title track has some interesting sounds haunting it, but the vocals ruin it for me. Perhaps you do not pay attention to vocals, so that will not be a deal breaker for you, but they are the most important aspect to me. Even Ian Curtis who did not have the widest range, or really not much of a range at all, used dynamics, had emotion in his phrasing, and made you a believer. So not everyone has to be a David Bowie or Peter Murphy when it comes to pipes, but I need more charisma at least. I will give this one a 7.5, they care about songs enough to make this work off the sound alone more often than not.
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