A Cloud of Ravens - Nature of Artefice
The pair from Brooklyn, New York, are on their way with an album that will sweep us away with killer melodies, and the old scribe is not wrong.
In the meantime, let's feed on this single, esoteric dancing splinter, a wound of the soul that finds the strength to come out of the mental coffin to warn us of the creatures of the abyss. A Postpunk wave brings Darkwave to the altar: the two stray mice will surely thrive, hissing and dramatic, defying Pop with an essential, lucid, effective refrain. They warn us of Grace by pretending to indulge it, but it is a deception that dies before the poignant beauty of this song. And it is looping, and it is artificial fire in the chest.
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
4th April 2023
