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Rating: Between darkness and wonder, the Manchester duo resurfaces in the crowded music market, baring themselves with sensuality and sweetness. The sound, although not lacking the usual electronic bursts, has become more essential and, if possible, even more enveloping.
Thus, to the usual fluttering and electronic blips is often added a whole string section, occasionally guided by a certain David Campbell, the orchestrator of Sea Change and Beck’s father.
The dance opens with the schizophrenia of Darkness, exemplary in combining mad electronic beats and instrumental cut-ups. Stronger presents itself, instead, more pop in essence and introduces us to the realm of lunar ballads that make up most of this third release by Andy Barlow and Lou Robinson. Till the Clouds Clear is proof of this, living in a pastoral air that promptly crumbles in the crescendo of the chorus.
During the succession of Between the Darkness and Wonder, one gets literally swept away by a spatial current that authorizes a mental journey, a purifying abandonment.
Listen to Learn and the splendid finale Hearts and flowers. Pure magic and imaginative catharsis for damned souls.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Darkness (05:00)
I couldn't see darkness until now
Only light!
(though sometimes the shadows flickered across my view)
Light!
But darkness, this cold emptiness,
Somehow passed me by
Like a charmed thing I sailed
Slipping through its fingers
Blessed untill now
Blessed untill now
Only now, only now, only now
And I'm beyond recognition
Gone to some small space in silent stillness
Yet something beats anew
Somewhere
I'm waiting to be reborn
Only this time, only this time, only this time
Born in darkness
None can dim my light
None. Can. Dim. My. Light.
02 Stronger (03:15)
I'm so afraid
Something is broken now
Too much been said
To wipe it clean somehow
Without
This love
Where will I be
Without
This love
Where will I be
Darkness abounds
Heaviness weighs myheart
'Round and round and round
We've gonna have to be apart
Without
(gonna have to be)
This love
(stronger than I've ever been)
Where will I be
(Don't know how to be without you)
Without
This love
Where will I be
Without
(gonna have to be)
This love
(stronger than I've ever been)
Where will I be
(Don't know how to be without you)
06 Wonder (05:20)
Lately I find myself
Amazed
And all around me
Everything I see
Like all of life a blaze
With love
That suddenly I see
Only now I see
The wonder
The wonder of it all
Wonder everywhere
More than we know
Heaven�s not up there
But on earth below
The wonder
The wonder of it all
Wonder everywhere
More than we know
Heaven�s not up there
But on earth below
Don't know if God exists
But there's some magic out there
So much we're not aware
And sometimes suddenly
I hear [i hear]
A harmony sing
Of each and everything
The wonder
The wonder of it all
Wonder everywhere
More than we know
Heaven�s not up there
But on earth below
08 Learn (02:13)
Are you feeling lost and lonely ?
You needn't be
Like you've lost all hope and your sanity
Oh you needn't be
If we only have one turn
In this life we have to learn
Carrying the world on your shoulders
You needn't be
Ever more as you get older
You needn't be, oh you needn't be
If we only have one turn
In this life we have to learn
We wish our lives away
Hoping for a better day
The future's miles away
And what is past is done and gone
If we only have one turn
In this life we have to learn
09 Please (04:33)
It's two in the morning
And I'm calling your name
Your voice on the line is
So far away
And my heart reaches out there
And finds you gone
You walk a path lonely
But you're never alone
And I'm begging you please
Please
Let me in
Please
please
Let me in
I know there are times when
In ashes you lie
Each one has a shadow
We can't deny
But there in your darkness
Living your pain
Wanna wrap you in love, babe
Again and again
I'm begging you please
Please
Let me in
Please
please
Let me in
Listen my tiney one
Gonna make it on your own
Look at what we have done to heal
Please please
Let me in
Please
please
Let me in
I'm begging you
I'm begging you
I'm begging you
Please
please
Please
11 Hearts and Flowers (05:23)
Hearts and flowers
A picture of what a love should be
But when it comes
It's deeper than
The darkest sea
Sometimes I'm so alone
Even in your arms
Like each of us
Keeps a little wall
Inside our hearts
Hearts and flowers
Those people that
Make up valentines
Forget the flesh
And blood of love
Like yours and mine
Sometimes I'm so alone
Even in your arms
Like each of us
Keeps a little wall
Inside our hearts
Hearts and flowers
A candy coated fantasy
But in your soul I've found the one
My soul can see
Sometimes I'm so alone
Even in your arms
Like each of us
Keeps a little wall
Inside our hearts
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