The Azoic: Where Broken Angels Lie
- Nilaihah
- Drown (Pulsating Mix)
- Terrible Space
- Intimate Incisions
- Summoning
- Terrible Space (Oneiroid Psychosis Mix)
- I Tried To Warn You (Flesh Field Decay Theory Mix)
- The Sad World
- Drown
- The Sad World (Desert Mix)
- Suffocation
- God Help Us
- Only Flesh
The Azoic have must have read my review of their last album "The Divine
Suffering" like a textbook because they corrected all of their problem areas.
My first complaint was that the male vocal were too heavily modified, so that a
duet with Kristy's natural vocals sounds wrong. On "Where Broken Angels Lie",
there are fewer moments where two people sing and Shawn and Steve's vocals are
less altered. You can almost hear harmony in their voices at times. My second
complaint was that they used far too many vocal samples from various Horror and
Science Fiction films. This was corrected when they cut down on the use of
these samples and arranged them to better fit the mood of the music. In
essence, their placement of these samples is much more efficient. These two
changes along with some quality remix work by Oneiroid Psychosis and Flesh
Field, make "Where Broken Angels Lie" one of the better written, produced, and
executed Darkwave albums of 1998.
The Azoic is:
Steve Laskarides - keyboards, vocals, drum machine, programming, effects
Shawn Lower - vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass
Kristy Venrick - vocals, keyboards
Contact:
The Azoic
401 E. Oakland St.
Columbus, OH 43202
E-mail: theazoic@netwalk.com
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