Tear Garden: To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide
- Ascension Day
- We The People
- In Search Of My Rose
- Crying From Outside
- Psycho 9
- With Wings
- Judgement Hour
- New Eden
- Tasteless
- Cyberspider
- Malice Through The Looking Glass
- Phoenix
- The Habit
The new Tear Garden album is the first release since 1993's "Sheila Liked The
Rodeo" as well as the only TG record that doesn't feature the dearly departed
Dwayne Goettel. Edward Ka-Spel's vocals remain as mellow as ever and Cevin Key
has chosen to stay away from much of the electronic programming. Instead
focusing mostly upon his instrument of choice, acoustic percussion The end
result is an exceedingly mellow album that sounds more like The Legendary Pink
Dots with Cevin on drums than a Tear Garden release. Of course that might have
more to with the current roster of the band rather than the intent. With the
exception of a handful of dub tracks, the majority of the album is starkly
minimalistic and hauntingly beautiful. One almost gets a sense that this album
could quite possibly be a funeral dirge for the passed away membership by the
album title and overall encompassing mood of the album. We'll probably never
know for sure, but the thought did bring a sigh of contentment and a tear to my
eye.
Tear Garden is: Cevin Key, Edward Ka-Spel, The Silver Man, Ryan Moore,
Martijn de Kleer, De Green Guy & Niels van Hornblower
Contact:
Nettwerk Records
632 Broadway
Suite 301
New York, NY 10016
(212) 477-8198
E-mail: info@nettwerk.com
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