
Elegi — Sistereis
Despotiets Vesen opens the album in fine eerier dead-body-floating form, mixing together haunted and pretty melancholy piano folds with creaking, footsteps and creepy organic sound fare, coming off like some of Ulver’s piano led soundtrack work. Later on Fyrtärnet Part 2 ushers us on board the deck of a corpse strewn creaking fishing boat, birds pick out there sky set eyes, crabs scuttling in their lulling mouths, and you can hear distant laughter and lost hope screams from down bellow. The whole album does evoke such potent and often dead bound feelings, even the sunniest day seems some how surreally sinister and washed out as this plays out its life.
An excellent boat full of gloomy sea bound dread, which mangers to be varied and very competent, especially when you take in to account this is the project first release.
