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Rating: I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness.
This is the name of the band. From the cover, one might imagine something related to the Antichrist, wrong. The cover is a flag, a blue heart on a black field. The heart is pierced, the blue stands for depression, melancholy, the black field... With this image, we are introduced to this American group from Austin, yet another piece in the near-endless Texan rock puzzle. More than a flag or an image, the cover seems like a manifesto. These guys show that they have listened to and well-assimilated the lesson of the masters: The Cure for Joy Division is the business of the International Police. If you'll indulge my little wordplay, then you'll be able to fully appreciate this album which immediately presents itself as intense and full of ideas; if you are free from prejudice, you might fall in love with it at first listen, as happened to me.
The tracks are very well-blended and homogeneous, the sound is compact even if a bit raw. All the ingredients to ensure that this debut work proves to be a true gem. As already mentioned, the guys don't offer anything truly new, but what they present is something that combines what can be loved from the bands I Italianly mentioned. Something that tastes of nostalgia, made of the best memories, giving the same sensation as finding a forgotten old love letter in a drawer.
Forgive me if I don't delve too much into the technical details, but regarding this album, I have chosen Love for the emotions and not the Darkness of notions.
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By Giordyboy
An assassin album, dark, desperate, twisted, violent, and cold at the same time, a blade in the heart, a bullet in the stomach.
Sublime nourishment for dark souls like mine, for those who looked at the world from another point of view.
By Relator
Loving darkness more than love is an attitude, an underlying thought present throughout the album, but also a goal, a choice.
If you listen to the album more than once, it becomes very light and goes down like an iced beer corrected with Steinegger.
