Shadowhouse – Forsaken Forgotten (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Punk-Rock, Rock-Wave.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: American formation Shadowhouse has been active since 2012. They released several EP’s and a debut album in 2014. They by the end of 2021 released the new opus “Forsaken forgotten” featuring ten songs. It’s their first production released by the French label Icy Cold Records.
Content: Shadowhouse is mixing different, but related music genres together. There for sure is an explicit 80s Dark-Wave sound and elements of Post-Punk, but there’s also a Dark-Rock influence emerging. The vocals have been performed in an enthusiastic way.
+ + + : This album doesn’t bring anything new, but sounds as a cool and efficient offspring between related music styles. The mix of Dark-Wave and Rock reminds me a bit of New Model Army. It’s a powerful production finding it’s apotheosis at “Peace”. I also have to say a word about the alluring and powerful vocals’ production.
– – – : Shadowhouse’s sound formula became a bit predictable after a while, the songs becoming similar to each other.
Conclusion: Shadowhouse isn’t setting the world alight but has accomplished an enjoyable album.
Best songs: “Peace”, “Black & White”, “Already Know”.
Rate: 6½.
Listen to “Forsaken Forgotten”:
Artist: www.facebook.com/SHADOWHOUSE.BAND
Label: www.facebook.com/icycoldrecords
About Shadowhouse
Shadowhouse is a post-punk and goth band from Portland, Oregon, founded in 2012. The line-up has changed repeatedly across the years, and the group has released most of its music itself or through small independent labels.
The releases run from “Haunted” in 2013 and “Hand In Hand” in 2014 through a “4 Way Split” seven inch on Resurrection Records in 2015, the “Colony / Heart And Soul” lathe cut on Svart Blod and Cvlt Nation in 2016, “Conformity / Fall Down” the same year, “The Portland Edition” in 2017 and “A Year Today” in 2020. The band also appeared on the Cvlt Nation covers set of Joy Division’s “Closer” in 2015.
“Forsaken Forgotten” came out through Icy Cold Records on 31 October 2021 in digital and CD form, with vinyl editions following in 2022. Its ten tracks are “Already Know”, “Bleed”, “Black & White”, “Tonight”, “Childhood”, “The Wait”, “Peace”, “Nowhere To Run”, “A Year Today” and “The Wind”. The band followed it with the shaped picture disc “Walking In The Air” on Sacred Hands in 2022.
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