Band: Unreqvited
Title: Stars Wept to the Sea
Label: Avantgarde Music
Release Date: 16 April 2018
Country: Canada
Format reviewed: FLAC
There is music that is dark, full of grief and pain, but
it does lift you up. You can feel it with every fibre of the skin and every
tiny piece of your soul. When you are down, you need it so badly, just because
it is sorrowful, but you know you will feel better and much inspired after
listening to it. Per aspera ad astra!
This is the new album by Unreqvited – “Stars Wept to the
Sea”. A music for all Those (precious) moments. It drowns you in own atmosphere,
creates an own world of experiences, gives you those forgotten feelings, and
makes your heart bleed…So much inspired, so much inspiration!
The present third album of this one-man Canadian band is
a stunning, again – stunning, journey into the most
intimate parts of the soul - 8 tracks of atmospheric post-black
metal, torturous layers of vocals, but with abundance of sorrowful piano lines,
glorious keyboards estrangements, crystal clear guitars, post-rock parts and
patterns, and full of (this so modern nowadays) blackgaze. Written, engineered, mixed and mastered by鬼 (ghost), “Stars Wept to the Sea”
delivers cosmic, airy, invisible to the eye thread of feelings, turning it into
a grandiose burning pyre with every second during the forward playthrough.
“Sora 天”
is the epochal 7-minutes entrance into this Unreqvited record. It is a tribute
to one of the author’s favourite composers – Brunuhville, and his song “Into
Darkness”. Followed by the heavier, grieving and blasting “Anhedonia”, the
album continues to dive us into the black observation of the inevitable
transformation. “Stardust” is the perfect description of the record –
mesmerizing crystal clear shiny beginning, turning into black desperation
taking over everything on its way. “Kurai 暗い” is just what it translates – dark, gloomy, dull, dispirited,
depressed, sorrowful, bitter – with clear introduction to the heaviness of the
bitter burden it carries in its second part. “Empryrean” is piano instrumental
which gives us a fresh breath, but this will cost tears… “White Lotus” is
spreading its beautiful clean colours into one’s dream. The track also gave another
curious glimpse and I searched again for the deep meaning it has in the history
of China, the Buddhism and the dynasties through the ages… Namida 涙 is again a short piano instrumental
before jumping into the 13:13 minutes “Soulscape”, a pure post-black painful
track with so many different faces; the final of this grandeur journey.
No need of a lot of words to be honest. Just go and
listen to this album. And when the it ends, I’m absolutely sure you will be
left gazing into black nothingness, feeling That Pain of the meaningless, “the
dormancy of human presence” into this world. Because you know “Your soul is bid
to revival among an omnipresent sky.” 9.5/10 Count Vlad
Band
Label
9.5/10 Epic Storm
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