Label: SWISS DARK NIGHTS

THE NEW ARCTIC Vault CD Digipack 2022

Art.Nr.: 46321

EAN: 8016670155973

Label: SWISS DARK NIGHTS

EUR 15,99
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Produktbeschreibung

THE NEW ARCTIC
Title: Vault
Format: CD Digipack
Year: 24.06.2022
Label: Swiss Dark Nights
Tracklist:         01 Veils 
02 Essence 
03 Silence so cold 
04 Paradise Lost 
05 Standing Dead
06 The Obsessed 
07 Narcissus 
08 Drifted away 
09 Out of the Vault
Info: Debut solo album by the California-based artist Eleanor X. The New Arctic denotes an icy world that is starting to thaw under the changing conditions of our landscapes. Musically, this metaphor is expressed through cold wave music that has a very vulnerable and human core.

Eleanor X's alto voice is our guide through some very dark places in this debut album; she takes us on a subterrenean voyage where we meet archetypes from the depths such as death, grief, rejection, erotic isolation, heartbreak, ancestral patterns, the dark power of the subconsciousness, self-loathing and at last an opening in the VAULT where she rises from the mysterious and pained underground psyche.
Her vocals are often nearly detached, grounded in their distance but with an underlying fragility. She is the objective witness to this VAULT full of tears that is an emotional archive of a very dark time now past. And from this VAULT we have a collection of songs that each stand alone as compelling dark wave tracks that will linger after each listen.
Eleanor X incorporates emulators from the 80s for a rich synth backdrop to support her analog bass and guitar, with expert drum programming by Pedro Code (Iamtheshadow, The Ending Nights) along with guest guitarist Robert Pelikan (deAnima, Garnet Fields) who weaves his emotive arpeggiations with postpunk moments. Icy darkness, so full of emotions…