Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: Early 2019 Collection D’Arnell-Andrea unleashed their tenth full length album. This…
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave.
Background/Info:
Early 2019
Collection D’Arnell-Andrea unleashed their tenth full length album. This work
became the symbol of the French formation’s resurrection after a
‘studio-absence’ of nearly ten years while it also is the first work they
released on Trisol. The end of the year is pretty close now and they again took
us by surprise revisiting “Another Winter” with a total ‘make-over’ of the
original songs.
Content:
This ‘recrafted’
album features all the songs from the original album. Except one song that has
been remastered (cf. “By The Pond”) all the other cuts have been reworked. The
main difference with the original versions is the electronic boost these
versions got. It creates a different approach although you’ll easily recognize
the typical dark- and melancholic flavor of the band. It all feels a bit like
Collection D’Arnell-Andrea wanted to inject some electronic modernism into
their work.
+ + + :
What I especially
like in this kind of ‘concept’, is that the band made the choice to remix all
songs themselves. It would have been easier to ask other formations for the
usual and often ‘cheap’ formula to get remixed. But Collection D’Arnell-Andrea
did it the opposite way, achieving a work, which sounds a bit ‘out of the box’,
but still features several attention grabbers. “Le Jour Venu” remains a
beautiful song, but quite curiously I prefer the ‘recrafted version’ of “Saules
Sans Voix” to the original edit. Another song that remains an attention grabber
is “Les Blés-Océans”. This work is definitely more electro-like and will
possibly touch a different audience, but it’s still melancholic because of the
melancholic atmospheres and still touched by the graceful singing of Chloé St.
Liphard.
– – – :
I definitely prefer
the original album for its authenticity, which is now a bit lost. It’s a crazy
challenge and I’m really wondering why they choose to rework their songs into
electronic versions instead of a (neo)-classical interpretation.
Conclusion:
This album is meant
as a sister-release to “Another Winter” and also confirms this legendary
formation is alive and kicking!
Best songs:
“Le Jour Venu –
Recrafted Version”, “Saules Sans Voix – Recrafted Version”, “Les Blés-Océans –
Recrafted Version”, “The Grief Of Waves – Recrafted Version”.
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