Beyond The Ghost – Eternal Drift (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: The last year released debut album “You Disappeared” by French musician Pierre Laplace aka Beyond The Ghost, was a successful work. He now strikes back revealing nine new compositions.
Content: The sonic universe of this Frenchman remains characterized by a rather intimate feeling created by chilling atmospheres reinforced by field recordings. But there also is an authentic touch running through the work, which is injected by cello passages from a guest musician and piano-like arrangements. Pierre Laplace also added –just as on his debut work, a few passages with mysterious, spooky chants.
+ + + : I again like the work of Beyond The Ghost, which is not only intimate, but also revealing a poignant ominous feeling. The tracks are progressively evolving towards a truly nearby, impending sphere. The addition of piano sound arrangements and cello make me think of the good-old black-white movies of haunted houses and abandoned places.
– – – : The album is just missing an absolute climax, but that makes me believe the best is yet to come.
Conclusion: This album has something of an imaginary, sonic urbex; you get the sensation visiting imaginary, abandoned, isolated –and hopefully haunted, houses.
Best songs: “The Slow Agony Of Solitude”, “Suspended Consciousness”, “Surrender”, “Nebulous Beings”.
Rate: (8).
Artist: www.facebook.com/beyondtheghost
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com / www.facebook.com/CryoChamber
About Beyond The Ghost
Beyond The Ghost is the solo project of French musician Pierre Laplace, who played in other bands before setting it up, including a decade in the three-piece Vera Clouzot alongside a cello player. Laplace started out playing New Wave music at 17, drawing on The Cure and Joy Division before moving into songwriting on nylon and folk guitar. Beyond The Ghost was signed to Cryo Chamber for its 2019 debut “You Disappeared”, and “Eternal Drift” follows as the project’s second album for the label.
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