Iamtheshadow – The Wide Starlight (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette.
Background/Info: formation Iamtheshadow released their fifth album
Content: This album sounds sweet and melancholic. The songs are composed by guitar, bass guitar and synths while frontman Pedro Code sings with a deep, timbre of voice. Belgian female singer Kristien Cools (Splendidula) has been invited to sing on one of the tracks injecting a bewitching effect to the work.
+ + + : I like the album’s sweet taste of melancholia. It has a dreamy- although dark effect which is accentuated by the synth lines. The title song is a cool piece illustrating this side. It comes also through during the last songs of the album. But my favorite cut is without a shadow of a doubt “IamTheDark” featuring Kristien Cools; this woman having a very charismatic and bewitching timbre of voice -reminding me of Gudrun Snake from Ľahká Múza.
– – – : The songs are sometimes a bit linear while I’m missing a few climaxes.
Conclusion: Iamtheshadow is revisiting melancholic Dark-Wave formats with a taste of reverie.
Best songs: IamTheDark”, “Remind Me”, “Catching Fire”, “The Killing”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/IAMTHESHADOWOFFICIAL
Label: www.coldtransmission.com / www.facebook.com/coldtransmissionmusic
About Iamtheshadow
Iamtheshadow is a Dark-Wave act fronted by Pedro Code. “The Wide Starlight” is the band’s fifth album, released via Cold Transmission Music, and features a guest vocal from Belgian singer Kristien Cools of Splendidula on the track “IamTheDark”.
Support Side-Line
More people read Side-Line than ever, and there is still no paywall and no advertising. Readers pay for it instead - from $5 a month.
Why we ask
Advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news organisations we have not put up a paywall, and we refuse to add annoying advertising, so we need to ask for your help. Side-Line’s independent journalism takes time, money and hard work to produce, and we do it to push the artists we like, who are equally fighting to survive.
Handled by PayPal.
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
