Saturday, October 8, 2022

Autumn Tears — Love Poems for Dying Children - Act I. (1996)


Ethereal darkwave with an ample helping of goth cheese. Organs creek, keyboard-strings weep, and male-female vocals soar through the night sky like lost spirits.

Track listing:
1. They Watch with Closed Eyes
2. Ode to My Forthcoming Winter: Part 1. Spring
3. Ode to My Forthcoming Winter: Part 2. Summer
4. Ode to My Forthcoming Winter: Part 3. Autumn
5. Ode to My Forthcoming Winter: Part 4. Winter
6. The Eloquent Sleep
7. And Then the Whispering...
8. One Tender Kiss (The Lost Seasons) - Prelude to the Garden of Crystalline Dreams
9. Carfax Abbey


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2 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting this! Sounds at times like taken from a spooky soundeffects collection for haunted house rides...but, strangely, as a whole it achieves a nice dark atmosphere.

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    1. Yeah, it really rides that line between over-the-top goth-y spookiness and genuine darkness, and clearly comes from a totally earnest, if kinda pretentious place.

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