My Review: NLIGHT - The Kiss Of Death

 NLIGHT - The Kiss Of Death

How obscene is the pursuit of beauty: for millennia we have been making the same mistake, not examining the error of our ways and indulging in taste.

Take the solo project of this French artist, capable and willing to take a sword full of brambles and draw notes in the air that seem laden with guilt, with gravity that cannot be erased. He writes a piece that plunges us into the intoxication of a truth that will kill us, but we can only acquiesce to the whole, because we have been placed in a position to receive a gift that opens history wide. Almost mute, mysterious, gothic to its bone marrow, it excavates and lubricates human history with unexplored wisdom. It lives a kiss in the text, it lives a funereal embrace in the music, and it lives the knowledge that the genre, the musical style (multiple and various) are only one of the means to express a conceptuality that enriches us, while the breath takes its leave, not before having thanked this delirious miracle…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Supino

20 April 2023

https://nlight.bandcamp.com/track/the-kiss-of-death