Then Came The Rain – Ravage (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: This is a French solo-project driven by Nicolas Albin. Four years after the debut album “Eigengrau” (2018) the French artist released its second full length album.
Content: “Ravage” sounds as a travelling machine getting us back somewhere in the 80s. The sound is dark and sometimes becoming obscure. The tracks are rather slow, reminding me a bit of the soft side from The Danse Society. The vocals are sung in English but there’s also a dark poetic track with French vocals.
+ + + : This is a dark and wafting composition which sounds like reflecting solitude and desolation. You feel like awakening from a bad trip which is perfectly symbolized by the poignant sound atmosphere of the work. I prefer the somewhat harder cuts like “Everything’s Gone Black” and “Shining Darker”.
– – – : I’m missing a few harder passages through this album. There definitely is more potential hiding inside this project.
Conclusion: A dark and emotional testimony of how modern Dark-Wave can sound.
Best songs: “Everything’s Gone Black”, “Shining Darker”, “Shock Doctrine”, “Hipparque”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/thencametherain
Label: www.facebook.com/icycoldrecords
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About Then Came The Rain
Then Came The Rain is the solo project of French artist Nicolas Albin, active in the darkwave and coldwave scene. The project debuted with the album “Eigengrau” on Icy Cold Records on 1 November 2018, written, performed, and produced entirely by Albin. “Ravage”, recorded between 2019 and 2021, followed as the project’s second full-length album on the same label in 2022.
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