Sisters - A Tangent Universe Recording History
Posted: 10 Sep 2014, 20:21
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."
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."
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