This is another of those albums where you instinctively know that it'd be bloody hard to produce a shit album based on the musician role call - piano, cello, 3 violinists and a female choir. And it doesn't let you down. Each tune is based around a pulsating piano motif and wrapped with the strings to produce sounds that go from emotionally desolate to almost sonic violence in the space of a couple of minutes. Strings have this amazing power to evoke the full gamut of emotions and here they are shown off to devastating swings in intensity. Halfway through this exquisite album they decide to bring in the angelic choir and then........it just rises in quality even further. I listened to this album 3 times in a row and i still keep finding new parts to love. Like Godspeed without all those noisy electronic instruments and with the added bonus of European pretension.
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