Dancing With Angels is the fourth album by Michael Ciravolo's collective Beauty In Chaos, this time Michael collaborates with Producer Michael Rosen alongside Cinthya and Wayne Hussey, Sarah Rose and William Faith, Julian Shah-Tayler, Kat Leon, Leo Luganskiy, Ashton Nyte, Patrik Mata and Cynthia Isabella with Tim Palmer helping out on some of the mixing duties. If you buy the physical versions of the album, you get some musical interludes not featured on the digital versions.
The album opens with Present Tense a duet featuring William and Sarah Rose Faith that has Torch Song intensity, they hope they can live in the present tense, rather than always looking backwards, the guitars swirl around them.
The Devil You Know features Kat Leon on a sylph like gentle indie goth builder, warning not to change too radically, gauzy lush backing feels comforting, no matter how much of a fool you feel for allowing that devil to do what he's done to you.
Diving For Pearls is a duet between Cinthya and Wayne Hussey that is far less goth than expected, this has a yearning heartlands rock feel, the relationship between them is discussed in glowing terms, even if it seems everything else is in various stages of decay.
Echoes And The Angels features Leo Luganskiy on a string led building love song, he wonders what could have happened if you lived your life differently.
Kiss Me (Goodbye) features Julian Shah-Tayler on a pulsating throb of a kiss-off song, the sparse piano accents the riff nicely, Julian sounds passionate and restrained, when the music twists into a gothic descent is when this song gets intriguing.
Hollow is with Cynthia Isabella whose mellow presence adds a lush romanticism to proceedings. Holy Ground is a slow ambient builder with Patrik Mata that goes full on goth floor filler, only with rather wistful vocals as he wonders will he finally find true love on that Holy Ground.
Made Of Rain has Ashton Nytes deeply sonorous vocals encased in the strings and guitar backing giving this a rather classic goth feel, some sadness at the mess you are in once more.
The album closes with the single version of Diving For Pearls that shaves a whole two seconds off the album version otherwise this duet between Wayne and Cinthya Hussey is just as catchy and heartlands as the other version.
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