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"I gave you all my love, where did you follow?"
Leading figures of world electrogoth, Clan of Xymox released in 2003 what is certainly their hardest album, namely "Farewell".
It's a record full of electrodark - industrial hits, laced with guitars, typical of the post-technopop period of Ronny Moorings and company, but finally devoid of those whining dark ballads that the Dutch group regularly included as fillers in their works.
Mind you, the slow songs are there and, in fact, they constitute, in my opinion, as usual, the real weak point of "Farewell", the second to last effort of the Dutch combo.
In "One more time", Clan of Xymox play at being electronic The Cure, while "Losing my Head" is really too formulaic a ballad.
Exception is "Dark Mood", an almost entirely instrumental interlude, very atmospheric.
But, abandoning all commercial ambitions, the remaining chapters of "Farewell", although the lyrics are steeped in dark pessimism, are electronically driving, with peaks of true sonic explosion.
I refer, in particular, to "Cold Damp Day" and its cold ebm rhythm, "It's Not Enough", a strongly pounding techno track, "Into Extremes" and its electrorock, "Courageous", a perfect hit to play in gothic discos.
The highest point is reached, however, in "There's No Tomorrow", a powerful electrodark that draws industrial apocalyptic scenarios.
In short, recommended both to those who love the sounds described in the review and to those who want to taste a type of heavy music different from the typical rock or metal.
"I see no light in dark, there's no tomorrow"
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Farewell (05:23)
All these helpless fallen angels
Evading commonplace
Dreading a thousand nameless evils
In the dark shimmering rays
The one with all the intuition
Knows now there's nothing gained
This cycle needs no repetition
I simply move away
Farewell affectionate brothers,
you won't see me again
Farewell affectionate brothers,
you won't hear me again
All in all , it's all forgotten
there's beauty in decay
Like the sun's tears in heaven
Calls back the castaway
Farewell affectionate brothers,
I won't see you again
Farewell affectionate brothers,
I cast my cares away Farewell
affectionate brothers,
I won't see you again
Farewell affectionate brothers,
you won't hear me again..
06 Into Extremes (05:48)
Living to the full is all I need in this town
Sail this ship of fools is all I do not to drown
You wait until I bleed when all I seek is unsound
So , so does it mean I go into extremes
Go into extremes , go into extremes ?
See how you feel when you fall in a sole manic stream
All what is left in my wake is the lust , love and hate
I crave for the one , and it’s all , and it’s all I ever done
Dead in a worn out cube I had enough of these skeletons
So , so does it mean , I go into extremes
go into extremes , go into extremes ?
So come on now , so come on now
Your lipstick screams , that’s what it means
That’s what it means, that’s what it means
Breaking all the rules is all I have on my mind
Across the barricades and no one goes like I do
So , so does it mean , So , so does it mean
I go into extremes , go into extremes ?
08 Courageous (05:15)
I live by bread alone
Makes you wanna go
I live in no manâ (TM)s land
Make me understand
One minute of the truth
Way down in your heart
Say what you want to tell
Way down you live in hell
I see youâ (TM)re courageous
Hear your damnation
See your temptation
Hear your frustration
I tell you where I stand
Iâ (TM)ve known it all along
Fate knocks on every door
Why keep it hanging on
Youâ (TM)re looking for Jacobâ (TM)s stone
Or for the chosen one
Iâ (TM)ve seen them come and go
When all is said and done
I see youâ (TM)â (TM)re courageous, see your starvation
See your vocation, give us salvation
Anything wonderful, anything please make it whole
Anything wonderful, anything please make it whole
- You got it, you hold it, you know it, I call it, you seal it, you fold it, I love it, you hate it
You leave it, you solve it, you play it, you feel it, you stall it, you breed it, you need it, you know it. -
I see youâ (TM) re courageous
See you â ~re in wasteland
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By Breus
Farewell represented the peak and point of no return of their creativity, embracing pounding and buzzing techno combined with the atmospheres dear to the band.
The album blends a patina of melancholic and shadowed romanticism with a decidedly disillusioned approach.
