My Absence By Now – Bliss (Album – The Circle Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Wave-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: “Bliss” is the debut album from the Italian project My Absence By Now. The band is driven by Emiliano Santoro -who’s also involved with Doom-Metal music, and female vocalist Graziana Oddo.
Content: This album is clearly mixing different sound universes. Driven by slow, downtempo rhythms and delicate electronic sound treatments you’ll notice sensual vocals of Graziana Oddo mixed with Doom-like growls of Emiliano Santoro.
+ + + : This is a fascinating opus which sounds a bit like a challenge. You don’t exactly expect elements of Pop and Metal as a sonic fusion. The work has been achieved with delicate sound treatments and strings. I like the duality in the vocals. “An Old Love” is a great song illustrating the sonic universe of this duo.
– – – : Several tracks are maybe a bit too short.
Conclusion: An interesting experiment as a fusion between different music styles.
Best songs: “An Old Love”, “Vapour”, “Just Leave Me Then”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/myabsencebynow
About My Absence By Now
My Absence By Now is the brainchild of Italian musician Emiliano Santoro, known as founder of doom/atmospheric post black metal/post rock act Dead Summer Society and dark ambient project Last Winter I Died. For My Absence By Now he is joined by guest singers Graziana Oddo (Elektrovice, ex-Retina) and Andrea Maggioni (Icidar, The Harrowing Yearning and Astral Emptiness).
The project introduced itself with the track “Behind” ahead of “Bliss”, its debut album released on March 24 via The Circle Music.
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