April 1995
Single: Sight of the Angels; B Side: Not Without Cause
Melody Maker Review:
"'Sight of Angels' marks the opening salvo to the upcoming and long-awaited (citation needed) 4th Sisters album 'Kissed by Night'- a title one might guess is merely revelling in Grand Demiurge Von's rictus irony- yet from the evidence of the prevailing howls barbing the eponymous track of this strained and markedly ineffectual inaugural effort, casts an ill omen over even the most faithful and jet-garbed of Eldritch's ageing disciples.
However, this trepidation soon proves hasty judgement of the objet d'art in question, even as the leering refrains of SoA's '"Gone to war" said Jezebel, aflight in red sceptre,' crash into a by-now all too predictable funereal grind of thrash guitars and the kaleidoscope machine-thud of that ever-present auger of the arm-flailing quickstep, Doktor Avalanche.
Messrs Andreas Bruhn and Adam Pearson fight hard to salvage a discernible moody melody from the storm of too-high-in-the-mix growling and syncopated seismics... of course, to no avail.
And yet this overbearing slingshot at the gilded glass ceiling of the American Alt-Rock market bears within its hollowed shaft (quiet, you at the back) a searing bolt of post-Marxian relish. 'Not Without Cause' sums itself up adroitly enough, but the sting in the tail stalks the length and breadth of this three minute triumph. Denuded of the dollar-grasping trappings of hard-rock Bon Jovism, a lighter yet tighter touch in the rhythm section yields an compelling arpeggio of majestic minimalism, perfectly wreathing Von's acid-dripping croon to friends better left dead. .. 'You say you warn me now, like Flanders held a sign... bad timing takes care of better times only you could find.'
If I guess right, 'Kissed by Night'- of which I have had the dubious honour of hearing in its near entirety, will must be doomed to fail in its bid for chart glory, laughed and jeered at by those who don't get the joke... it will be all the better for it. And so will we.
Come May 21st, prepare for a shiver up your spine."
Sisters - A Tangent Universe Recording History
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People do so like to help you keep your feet on the ground
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Robson wrote:?
People do so like to help you keep your feet on the ground
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Being645 wrote:Shocking ......
1995 ......casts an ill omen over even the most faithful and jet-garbed of Eldritch's ageing disciples....
People do so like to help you keep your feet on the ground
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B-side? even if vinyl 7" still existed in the tangent universe,surely it would be AA-side on any plane of existence? 
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
According to Mr.Dimitris Nanopoulos there are at least 9 parallel universes plus ours. Only difference in them ? Sisters writing majestic songs and music in vinyl records or other media types undiscovered to our dimension
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
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omg
comeback of the decade
(and with this, I am reconciled to the lack of a Sisters one.)
comeback of the decade
(and with this, I am reconciled to the lack of a Sisters one.)
The thought experiment of Schrödinger's Spiggy speculates that the new material, in a system flawlessly sealed from observation, is curiously suspended between simultaneous existence and non-existence.iesus wrote:According to Mr.Dimitris Nanopoulos there are at least 9 parallel universes plus ours. Only difference in them ? Sisters writing majestic songs and music in vinyl records or other media types undiscovered to our dimension
Which is Von's so afraid to release a new album - as soon as anyone gets to observe it, there's a 50/50 chance it'll turn out to be dead.centurionofprix wrote:The thought experiment of Schrödinger's Spiggy speculates that the new material, in a system flawlessly sealed from observation, is curiously suspended between simultaneous existence and non-existence.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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Alternatively, based on the work done by T Pratchett et al, record companies with offers of a 3-album deal are afraid to approach the box which containsstufarq wrote:Which is Von's so afraid to release a new album - as soon as anyone gets to observe it, there's a 50/50 chance it'll turn out to be dead.centurionofprix wrote:The thought experiment of Schrödinger's Spiggy speculates that the new material, in a system flawlessly sealed from observation, is curiously suspended between simultaneous existence and non-existence.
because there is a 33% chance that he's bloody furious."I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
Hank Moody
Hank Moody