Charlotte's ShadowThis was something in the e-mail box coming from left-field… and I like it. Charlotte’s Shadow is an act that originated from Dublin in 2001. They moved across to Germany for a year or so to cut their teeth on the underground movement there, and now are located in Spain. What? No mention of Japan? As long as it is good, Igor will give it a shot! The band have just released their new CD, Hush, and from the samplings available online I must say I like it!

While there are influences from their travels and development through Europe, it is the Irish origins that seem to give this band the gritty earthy undertones to their music. The album is very retro-Goth rock with a lot of extra carefully loaded in to give to accent the retro without dousing it in new wave. It has a lot of dark emo – romanticism, melancholy, despair and more of those emotions we love to mope over. It is not music that you would mosh to (although I haven’t seen their live show – btw they did Wave Gotik Treffen this year), but it is good brooding stuff. It just goes to show you, you don’t need to sound digital in this day and age to sound good.

Charlotte's ShadowCharlotte’s Shadow: HUSH

Track List
Wherever you are
Alive again
Hush
Take me away
So wrong
How can i tell you
Lonely life
Show me
Nothing is enough
To live forever
Home
Cruces

The album was released on June 1st, 2006 by The Art Records.
You can order the album from The Art Records (Spanish) or write to shadow70625 [AT] yahoo [DOT] com.

Charlotte’s Shadow are:
J.Catala: lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, programming
A.Avalos: bass
Blas Bernal: live supporting guitar

More Details:
Charlotte’s Shadow – German and English with samples (info)
The Art Records – Spanish (info)

I wonder what other people’s thoughts are on this album?

And now a quick message to Charlotte’s Shadow… Thanks for the mail – it was another refreshing side-track to my regular Japanese Goth madness. Can I ask for… a link to JGoth.com in return?

Thank yas!

- Igor

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