Creatures of the night probably miss the 80s
of the last century badly. Post-punk and New Wave reached glorious
heights and their epic explorations of mixing hard guitars and driving
electronics dominated alternative dance floors. Names like SISTERS OF
MERCY, FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, DEPECHE MODE, JOY DIVISION, THE HUMAN
LEAGUE, ULTRAVOX and others still have a magic ring to them. Luckily,
all that subtle eroticism, the electric excitement, and dark musical
pleasure is not gone for good: SOROR DOLOROSA come flying to the rescue
on black wings.
Their fourth album "Mond" (German for "Moon") has
musical fangs that draw delicious sonic blood on the first listening
experience. The classic dark post-punk and wave elements are all there,
and so is the overwhelming enticement to let your feet move in an
ecstatic dance under the eponymous moon. Yet SOROR DOLOROSA are no
peddlers of stale snake oil nostalgia. The French band has updated the
classic feel with a massive sound fitting for the new millennium. Mix
and mastering of "Mond" have been successfully entrusted to PERTURBATOR
mastermind James Kent, who has polished this epic album with a lush
vibrant power and ethereal coldness. Lyrically, SOROR DOLOROSA remain
firmly on the path they have wandered from the start, when the band was
originally founded in Toulouse in 2001 and finally emerged with the
"Severance" EP in 2009. Their inspiration has again come in part from
poets and writers such as William Blake and Edgar Alan Poe. The romantic
and cathartic emotional landscapes are still at the heart of the band.
With "Mond", SOROR DOLOROSA are reaching far out of the solar sphere and
into deep outer space where the musical past and future become entwined
to create an exciting new chapter in the band's evolution.
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