Pretty Haunted Things

Unto Ashes conjures a stirring and captivating album, simultaneously beautiful and unsettling. Pretty haunted things - their eleventh Projekt release in a career stretching two decades - effortlessly spans the ages from a dark and medieval flair to modern apocalyptic gothic-folk. Recorded almost entirely in an octagonal Victorian parlor room, bewitched by centuries-old traditions, the songs of reflective solemnity are swathed in dramatic, soaring choruses executed by Ericah Hagle, Michael Laird, and Bret Helm (of Audra). The music harkens back to their groundbreaking debut, Moon Oppose Moon (1999): UntoAshes has wrought music with an unusually broad array of diverse instruments, including hammered dulcimer, harmonium, autoharp, psaltery, viola da gamba, acoustic guitar, piano,and Arabic percussion. The songs are masterfully crafted by Laird, whose enchanting production is characterized by a gossamer of sonic treatments. The eerie, olden-skills Poppet dolls that adorn the covers seem to beckon the listener with binding spell of ensorcellment. As is their custom, Unto Ashes songs are unified in their explorations of love, loss, and life. There are moments of quiet reverie followed by epic revery. Ericah Hagles "White Noise" presents a harrowing hospital farewell; the melancholic and exalted "Im too high" reflects on a distant past; the mesmerizing "Im living in a Coma" concerns a flat-lined relationship and could almost be classified as psychedelic music; "Letter from Choco to Melody" is a magnificent eulogy to a departed cat, and can also be seen as a testament to undying love; the descending melody and preternatural harmonies on "Dont ask Me if Im crazy" are un- forgettable. Strictly speaking, there is a love ballad on the album, although it is deceptively disguised as an anthem "For My Funeral"; some listeners have sworn that this is "the song" that must be played for them on "that day." Two songs are graced with words by 19th-century authors, namely Emily Bronte ("Fall Leaves Fall") and E.A. Poe ("Alone".

Number of Discs: 1

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