Handful of Snowdrops again.
Aug. 26th, 2009 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationMy reissue of Land of the Damned got here the yesterday, and I have to say that it sounds really nice. It's been remastered and cleaned up a bit, and the 4 demos from 1986 are interesting looks back into the roots of the album. The extended mix of "Gabrielle" is maybe a bit excessive-- it leans on AutoTune a bit more than I might like, but it's not bad and the album itself is good enough that it'd take a lot more more than an extra-poppy remix to bring it down. (And actually, after a couple of listens the remix is growing on me. We'll see.)
The CD is 12 bucks Canadian (or 14 cents American. Actually about $10.50 right now.), available here.
They have a MySpace page, of course, so you can see if it's something you like. Their sound, for the lazy or for people who want to try to avoid MySpace, is something like old Clan of Xymox, although a bit more lush than CoX's self-titled album, and a bit poppier than "Medusa" (in a good way). They'd have fit right in on 4AD around 1985 or 1986, so if you like that sound, HoS is worth checking out. Sadly, they're almost totally unknown in the US. I don't know if "Gabrielle" got any airplay or got played in clubs around then, but it should have. They had some tracks on the C'Est La Mort "Doctor Death" compilations which are worth tracking down as well. Land of the Damned got some serious play in my room when I was living on Dover Street (the first time) and in Lowell.
Yes, I've been nerding it up bigtime over HoS lately-- Jean-Pierre Mercier emerged again recently on the HoS mailing list (which I found out when I was unkind to their second studio album on solipsism.net, heh) and appears to be trying to bring the band back to life. I'm usually skeptical of that kind of thing, but I wouldn't mind hearing more from HoS.
The CD is 12 bucks Canadian (or 14 cents American. Actually about $10.50 right now.), available here.
They have a MySpace page, of course, so you can see if it's something you like. Their sound, for the lazy or for people who want to try to avoid MySpace, is something like old Clan of Xymox, although a bit more lush than CoX's self-titled album, and a bit poppier than "Medusa" (in a good way). They'd have fit right in on 4AD around 1985 or 1986, so if you like that sound, HoS is worth checking out. Sadly, they're almost totally unknown in the US. I don't know if "Gabrielle" got any airplay or got played in clubs around then, but it should have. They had some tracks on the C'Est La Mort "Doctor Death" compilations which are worth tracking down as well. Land of the Damned got some serious play in my room when I was living on Dover Street (the first time) and in Lowell.
Yes, I've been nerding it up bigtime over HoS lately-- Jean-Pierre Mercier emerged again recently on the HoS mailing list (which I found out when I was unkind to their second studio album on solipsism.net, heh) and appears to be trying to bring the band back to life. I'm usually skeptical of that kind of thing, but I wouldn't mind hearing more from HoS.