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The Winds Truly Blow Higher And Dreary Excellence Awaits!

carlitos zanzibar | Oak Harbor, Wa USA | 06/06/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Isreal has produced a gem amidst strife and war. This is the consummate dreary, suffocating, at times, haunting sounds of a head trip through a black hole of dementia. A flagrant scent of temptress chaos buzzing around your head like an expanse of territory far reaching and which scope borders on the marginal edges of insanity. This is the head space created by a lacuna of fissurous bass lines providing the pulse for this melacholious effort. The Doors, Pink Floyd, and Yes collide with Cradle Of Filth and Sins Of Thy Beloved in their most subtle and most medicated. Maor Applebaum has created a eerie landscape making you feel like ambient doom will enblanket you. Far too many times an album like this will go ignored simply because the label is too afraid of how the buying public will digest this slab of suicide doom. LET ME TELL YOU NOW this cannot go ignored! Winds Blow Higher starts with Lying in Wait. Cannon blasts christen the coming of space age cruisers approaching a dewified dawn. Then a battle commences and does not let up. This is The Mamas and the Papas possessed by a fiendish incubus. Winds Blow Higher delves into maddening lullabye whispered by Lucifer himself into the ear of a sleeping child. Sands of Time is medieval strains of plucked strings submerged in a watery grave. A Cradle of Filthian Pink Floyd excursion. Solitude brings back memories of sleep deprivation fed hallucinations that both haunted and cleansed the soul. Do You Remember provides a rainy day slumber that brings about a dream of Pink Floyd Art-house cafe nuances. "Do you Remember When" whispers Roger Waters sentimentality and David Gilmore's Mother speak. This is an experience you must try. One listen and you'll swear you just overdosed on Sudafed. This CD comes highly recommended so go purchase this and thank me later."