Dead Melodies – Memento (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: The prolific British artist Tom Moore is exploring the world of dreams in his newest work. This must be his eighth solo-work while he also released several collaborative pieces.
Content: “Memento” is moving from pure Dark-Cinematographic music to Dark-Ambient. The artist brings both universes together while accentuating some passages with evasive guitar playing. The tracks have been progressively built up until reaching an ominous sphere achieved with field recordings.
+ + + : Dead Melodies holds onto his familiar sound formula. It’s a typical Cryo Chamber release for its Cinematic format but also an interesting Dark-Ambient approach reaching a climax at “Eyes Of The Sun”.
– – – : Dead Melodies moves on composing a pleasant and even fascinating sound but the albums are progressively becoming more predictable. The effect of surprise is gone.
Conclusion: Dead Melodies has accomplished a new dark composition touched by grace and serenity.
Best songs: “Eyes Of The Sun”, “Welcome Delirium”, “Where Lonely Embers Grow”. .
Rate: 7.
Listen to “Memento”:
Artist: www.facebook.com/thedeadmelodies
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com /
About Dead Melodies
Dead Melodies is the dark ambient project of British musician Tom Moore. Moore has been making music since 2006, first as Indigolab, a guitar-based outlet that ran to ten albums and EPs. In late 2014 he turned to ambient music and released three EPs and two full-length albums through the Norwegian net label Sparkwood Records, which also hosts his ambient post-rock side project Understated Theory.
His early self-released material includes the 2015 EPs “Slowwave Perception” and “Broken Shadows And Wildsilences”. In 2016 came “Subtle Imperfections” on Sparkwood Records, the “Parallel Existence” album and the “Mortuus Chronos” EP with Strange Meat. “Legends Of The Wood” in 2017 was his first release for Cryo Chamber, followed by “Tomb Of Druids” the same year, “The Foundations Of Ruin” in 2018 and “Primal Destination” in 2019.
2020 brought three records: “Anthropocene” with Zenjungle, “Crier’s Bane” with Beyond The Ghost and the solo album “The Masterplan”. “Fabled Machines Of Old” followed in 2021. “Memento” was released on 22 March 2022, written, produced and performed by Moore, with artwork and mastering by Simon Heath.
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