Once more, Ellery James Roberts finds himself with a unique project that may well burn so intense that there are no corners left to light.
On Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing, Roberts and Hoorn deliver a beautiful album filled with bombastic, gothic and anthemic hymns that aim for deliverance.
Every single song sounds crafted to provide a journey and an insight; that nearly every one succeeds is a triumph. Spiritual Songs may be an emotionally tiring listen, but in 2016, it's unrivaled in conviction and sonic release.
The overall feeling is of an all-hands, against-the-odds triumph against staggering forces.
Spiritual Songs is not a casual listen and can be emotionally overwhelming at times, requiring complete attention in order to fully enter the intimate world of these star-crossed lovers. Once inside, Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing is as intoxicating as falling in love for the first or last time.
A triumph of pain and determination. Never before has passion been so loud and brilliantly bright.
BEST TRACKS: (all of them)
Beside some songs that stay in mediocrity, despite their boldness to create things on their own, in the end you feel like they did it and, also, gave us one of the most beautiful songs of 2016: Here Our moment Ends.
1 | I&I 2:56 | |
2 | Unites 4:16 | |
3 | Beneath The Concrete 4:30 | |
4 | Future Blues 4:25 | |
5 | Someday Come 5:24 | |
6 | $ORO 6:21 | |
7 | Here Our Moment Ends 4:56 | |
8 | Loyalty 5:42 | |
9 | Lost Under Heaven 4:50 | |
10 | First Eye to the New Sky 5:35 | |
11 | Lament 5:17 | |
12 | The Great Longing 5:11 |
#24 | / | Rough Trade |
#39 | / | For The Win |
#49 | / | Les Inrocks |