Well, having read the PR stuff, I wasn' t sure what to expect at all but. what I actually got was a music which deserves a much wider audience. Comparisons with such people as the COCTEAU TWINS, ENYA, CLANNAD are inevitable but these influences (if such they are) show through rarely - and the vocalist sounds a little more like a lighter, more melodic NICO, although again, this is an easy cop out, for your humble reviewer - her voice is probably stronger than any of those mentioned below. The album opens with "Aigues Mortes" - large and dramatic music built around a thudding bass drum. The vocalist has a strong voice which follows the music perfectly while choral backing adds just the right amount of colour. "Te Es La Force Du Silence" follows with a sort of crossover between the COCTEAUs and the BRITH GOF / TEST DEPT album sound - melodic yet retaining a spine of pure granite. "Fleè Et Fabian" follows this, again like the GUTHRIE / FRAZER partnership, but somehow this reaches further, goes beyond mere music to tap human emotion, showing us some place of beauty and inspiration we didn't know we were missing. It ends leaving you feeling empty with loss in the visceral seat of your soul. "Nosce Te Ipsum", the last track on side one begins a little Folksy/Medieval, then gains a good running pace, carrying the listener along on a tide of intense music. "Zweistimmenstauschung" starts side two, another fastish-paced, massive piece of music which diversifies in style and composition at intervals, keeping a hard, tight sound while making occasional forays into the field of tense madness. "Torquemada" - which may be about that nice Spanish guy - has a chilling hardness with a rising sound which might give members of WHITEHOUSE bad dreams. It has a Middle-Ages feel to it, which certainly adds to the atmosphere. "In Articulo Mortis" closes the album with a medium-paced track - fully-fleshed out but somehow loose, closer to improvisation, this time the vocalist bringing SIOUXSIE to mind, even to the point of gritty flanged guitar. If this review has germinated interest in you, then buy a copy of it & listen to it loud - it's an experience I can enjoy all too rarely! Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.