All My Faith Lost – Untitled (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: More than a decade after their last production, Italian formation All My Faith Lost strikes back with new work. The album is simply entitled “Untitled” and features eleven songs. Several guest musicians contributed to this album.
Content: The album stands for dark reverie; a mix between Ethereal female voices and Dark-Ambient atmospheres. The songs have been accomplished by different instruments while the angelic voice of Viola Roccagli supports the composition with a touch of grace and mystery.
+ + + : This work is a noticeable return for the Italian formation we all remember from their work released by Cold Meat Industry. “Untitled” is an artistic creation for its authenticity. The work has been composed with different instruments like guitar, bass, violin, piano, flute… which creates a graceful effect, but also an evasive experience. There’s a visual strength running through the production, which for some passages even has something Cinematographic like. Last, but not least I also like the ‘concept’ of the album, which is based on paintings from Surrealists.
– – – : The album is an enjoyable and somewhat relaxing experience, but I regret there’s not exactly a true climax or crescendo passages in this work.
Conclusion: “Untitled” is a refined production creating a sonic bridge between Ethereal- and Dark-Ambient music.
Best songs: “Awakening The Moon”, “Violent Dreams II”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/allmyfaithlost
Label: www.cycliclaw.com / www.facebook.com/cycliclaw
About All My Faith Lost
All My Faith Lost … is an Italian ethereal and folk-influenced group formed in 1999 by Federico Salvador and Francis M. Gri. Singers and flautists Viola Roccagli and Raffaella Missio joined after hearing the early material, according to the Discogs profile, and the band’s work turned to faerie and folklore themes drawn from John Keats and the books of Brian Froud.
Discogs lists the self-released CDr “Hollow Hills” (2000) and “In A Sea, In A Lake, In A River … … Or In A Teardrop” (Sin Organisation, 2002), followed by two albums on the Swedish label Cold Meat Industry, “As You’re Vanishing In Silence” (12 February 2005) and “The Hours” (23 August 2007). The EP “Decade” appeared on FinalMuzik in 2009, the compilation “Still White Air” on Pocket Records in 2011, “Chamber Music” on Infinite Fog Productions in 2013 and the digital album “Redefine My Pure Faith” in 2014.
“Untitled” was released by Cyclic Law on 9 March 2021 as a CD in a six-panel digisleeve limited to 500 copies, as a double LP on black vinyl (200 copies) or black and white marble vinyl (100 copies) and as a download, running 52:08. The eleven tracks are “Violent Dreams II”, “We All Die Sometimes”, “Nymphs IV”, “The Ice Princess”, “Keeping Time”, “The Inconvenience Of Spirits”, “White Thread”, “Awakening The Moon”, “Flood”, “Cassandra” and “The Night Is Calm”. The label notes credit new guitarist Angelo Roccagli and state that each song takes its cue from a painting by artists linked to Surrealism, among them João Ruas, Tara McPherson, Nicoletta Ceccoli and Ray Caesar. “Untitled” is the band’s first album in a decade and its only Side-Line review to date.
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