MP3DB.pro - Claire Voyant

Time is the sensation of mortality; the steady transition from
past to future, certainty to uncertainty. And while the
certainty of mortality has preoccupied humanity since the
earliest times, there also exists an ancient desire to know the
future. Science considers only objective reality, where events
are taken as evidence of physical laws whose truth may be
ascertained by experiment. Clairvoyants, on the other hand, have
always tried to go a step further, but have never claimed
control over the laws of gravity or methods of communication.
Claire Voyant is a four-piece band from Sacramento. The name, a
play on the French clairvoyant (one who possesses "second
sight"), was also the name of a sensational 1940s comic strip
series. Much like the fictional Claire Voyant was the alias of
an antiheroine called "The Black Widow", Claire Voyant the band
conceals singer Victoria Lloyd.
With their new album "Lustre", Claire Voyant leads the listener
on a trip through a dreamlike musical world. Victoria's dulcet
voice, heavily treated with echo and chorus, is heard on almost
every track, winding its way through forests of keyboard and
guitar. Despite filling the acoustic space to its limit, the
effect is warm and clear but never over excessive.
After just a few tracks, you'll find yourself wondering whatever
happened to albums that you could listen to the entire way
through without fatigue or boredom setting in? The 80s offered
an abundance of such fully-formed, strikingly listenable
atmospheric albums on labels like 4AD (Cocteau Twins, This
Mortal Coil) and Crammed Disc (Bel Canto, Colin Newman).
Unfortunately, the mantra of the 90s was to simply slap together
a bunch of filler around a hit single and rush it out the door.
But what makes Claire Voyant stand out is not a penchant for 80s
revivalism, but a return to expansive song structures with
crystal-clear melodies and outstanding vocals.
"Lustre" heralds the long overdue return of that rarest of CDs
which renders your player's "skip" function unnecessary: the
entire album is the hit! Simply press play, sit back, and let
your world be transformed.