PINHDAR returns with the ethereal A Sparkle On The Dark Water.
The album begins In The Woods with skipping electric synths, prickly guitar licks and dragging baselines carrying Cecilia’s angst into the Cold River where pummeling kick drums levitate Max’s winding guitar licks.
Home drags in with spatial chords punctuated with sparse percussion punctuating longing lyrics as Cecilia paints a portrait of lost dwellings that seem interdimensional.
The subterranean Little Light dances into deeper waters:
Will we be able to survive and
Shine in the dark?
Maybe…or perhaps not, for there exist harmonic Murderers of A Dying God that are:
Shouting
Despairing
Crying
Freaking out
Going mad
Is our fate as Humans death or merely madness?:
Solanin opens with mourning synths as Cecilia whispers her urban observations accompanied by Max’s tasteful guitar plucks followed by orchestral notes and despairing tones;
We are like raindrops in a storm
Just before the big fall
We are like raindrops in a storm
Just before the big fall
then fades into a synthesized sea of Frozen Roses where choppy drums smatter Cecilia’s retrospective lament into haunting harmonies:
Ask the wind that whispers its
moans why the sun rises,
the stars shine but the darkness
remains
Abysses displays beautiful guitar chords over a marching drum that crescendos into hard rock At the Gates Of Dawn;
Darkness needs to be deep
for the the first stars to appear
mystical guitar licks, lazy drums and a silent piano.
A Sparkle On The Dark Water by PINHDAR, released 22 March 2024 1. In The Woods 2. Cold River 3. Home 4. Little Light 5. Murderers Of A Dying God 6. Humans 7. Solanin 8. Frozen Roses 9. Abysses 10. At The Gates Of Dawn
