 | |
Inner Pale Sun
[Cold Meat Industry]
Back from a three years break devoted to his side-project Sophia, Peter Pettersson is now back to revive Arcana again. Announced, as usual, by the release of a maxi single (the beautiful "Body Of Sin"), the fourth album of Dead Can Dance's most gifted heir soon reveals the baroque magnificence which has been the band's trademark since the seminal "Dark Age Of Reason"(1996). Much more inspired than its predecessor, "The Last Embrace", "Inner Pale Sun" reunites with the angelic lights of a universe which goes from sacred music to medieval soundtrack. Much more instrumental than vocal (the presence of new singer Ann-Mari Thim is much too rare), this new masterpiece mostly surrenders to classic elements (keyboards, piano, kettledrums), though a few new sounds (guitars, dulcimer) come to enlarge Arcana's dream-like spectrum a bit further. In a time where heavenly voices are declining and cheap middle-age dark seems to rule, Peter Pettersson's gothic enlightenments appear to be the only ones able to describe with so many nuances the voluptuous forms of a Paradise farther and farther away from terrestrial realities.
Stéphane Leguay |
| | |  | | |
| | | |
| | | | |
