Cinemascope – A Crack On The Wall (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Indie-Wave.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Eight years after the debut album “Stains Of Love” we get a new album by Greek artist and DJ Leo Skiadas aka Cinemascope. Skiadas got some help from a few guests to achieve his new work.
Content: The album takes off in a sweet Dark-Wave way. The composition indeed is sweet, accessible although dark and melancholic. The influences are merging Dark-Wave and Indie-Pop together. Guitar and vocals inject a true passion on top of the composition.
+ + + : The guitar playing is absolutely noticeable. It injects power and passion to the composition which is reinforced by a similar vocals’ production. The choruses have an elevating effect which you’ll experience at different tracks. I want to mention “In Silence” and “Sometimes (On A Place Away From Here)” which both are true brilliant cuts but the album has much more to offer.
– – – : I regret the album only features 8 tracks. I’m not a huge fan of the sweetest passages like “Ocean” and “Leaving Is My Way To Breath”.
Conclusion: This new opus by Cinemascope sounds as a new and promising beginning. This is a great cocktail made by Dark-Wave and Indie-Pop.
Best songs: “In Silence”, “Sometimes (On A Place Away From Here)”, “Die In Summer”, “Fall”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063630818174
Label: www.waverecordsmusic.com / www.facebook.com/waverecords Read the news on ‘A Crack On The Wall’.
About Cinemascope
Cinemascope is a new wave, darkwave and cold wave band from Athens, Greece, built around Leo Skiadas. Skiadas has worked as a club and radio DJ and as a concert promoter in the Greek dark alternative scene since the early 1990s. Discogs lists the Greek spelling Πεωνίδας Σκιαδάς as an alias.
The debut album “Stains Of Love” came out on Wave Records in 2014. Eight years passed before the next full length. The two-track single “Ocean” appeared early in 2022, and the pandemic lockdown period produced eight further songs.
Those eight songs make up “A Crack On The Wall”, released by Wave Records on vinyl, CD and digital. For this album Skiadas was joined by guitarist Johnny Papaioannou, bassist in Background Noise Suppression and founder and bassist of The Accureacy. Skiadas stated: “This is not all about doom and gloom, since there is a strong urge to find this crack on the wall that might leave a slight ray of light coming in.”
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