Articles by Coreen Wolanski

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  Iditarod

  The Ghost, the Elf, the Cat and the Angel

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2002

  The disc starts off with a coffeehouse feel to it guitar, vocals and bongo percussion giving the sense of that intimate, hippie-folk-type o...

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  Zek Lightning

  Mirrors to Heaven and Back Again

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2002

  Monotone vocals and bar after bar of two-chord repetitions gives this release a Joy Division kind of personality. Although the tracks, for...

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  Audra

  Going to the Theatre

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

  Not a bad debut release from the duo known as Audra. It's gothic, very gothic. As much as I wanted to find a better way to describe them th...

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  Lost Patrol

  Creepy Cool

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

  Picture, if you will, Björk doing a few numbers with the Ventures as the sun sets behind the tumbleweeds on the Arizona plane. That's right...

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  Third and the Mortal

  Memoirs

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002

  What could they have put in Norwegian water these days to make so much great music come out of that country? These folks are a slow, trip-h...

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  Das Ich

  Anti'Christ

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002

  The combination of the beautiful and the grotesque has never shared a place so intimately as they do here on Anti'Christ. This album is ter...

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  Icon of Coil

  The Soul is in the Software

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002

  The dark electronic genre has been making waves in leaps and bounds in the last few years. Bands such as Covenant and Apoptygma Berzerk hav...

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  Glenn Love

  Cruel Utopia

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2002

  Cruel Utopia is a strong fourth album from this one-man dark electronic/ambient project from Toronto, and from the first track the clean, p...