Half Light is the latest album Industrial Post Punk goths History Of Guns who are exploring the altered reality of the modern world from the Hertfordshire industrial heartland of Cheshunt, the mind washed, brain washed stuck inside the matrix are investigated by Del Aliens modernist visions, that have been soundscaped by Max Rael and Caden Clarkson and mixed by Pete Maher. The musicians creating new realities are Andy Webster & Marnie from SPUCKTUTE, Amon Asentir & Mark Eris from Xykogen, Arcadia Choir (Emma Mills, Priyanka O'Neill, Sohm O'Neill and Ninotschka G.), Nykky Spectre.
The album opens with the trance rock pulsation and first single No Longer Earthbound a mantra for the beautiful people who died, classical synth memento mori.
Never Give It Up disco dancefloor filler, robotic coded messages imprinted in your angular robot dance moves, lights flashing attacking the senses. All You Dream You Can Never Have deadpan reflections on hopes dashed in the chilled-out core, another day within the impossibilities within the matrix algorithmically denied, gongs ring out the message.
What's Buried Will Rise slowly narrated dark risings of those buried things, life becomes horror show once more we march trance like into the dominion of the walking dead.
Flashes Of Light (Part 5) a slow tale, question what is god? Those questions, what life is really all about, everyday mundanity of an MOT test down on Turkey Street, pummelling your mind to seek out new chances, what do any of us deserve, will you see a Flash Of Light or will it all just fade to grey, sombre piano Third Uncle like you self-medicate your life away to numbness, eventually you'll run for the gun, you have been mind washed.
When You Don't Matter performed a magic trick of barely seeming to be there at all. Arcadia awaits us with a suspiciously early 80's soft rock riff, alien eyes are watching to see if you can escape from Bengeo, freedom is a state of mind after all.
Drug Castle has them sitting in the darkest crack house in all Cheshunt dread and hatred seep through the miasmic noise rock smoked, Crystal blown minds dreaming of adventures in Hertford Castle, without laying down and dying the invasion of self-hate mantras of despair. The way you hate each other, hatred in the depths of the Drug Castle.
Survive the Night is an acoustic strum for one of those nights where it all might end, do what you have to, so you survive for another day.
The album closes with An Invitation to 9 minute magnum opus, dalek voiced intro, piano warblings slowly lead us into the pain of modern life, the rant of the mid-life crisis, friends are dying, all your doing is sitting at home getting wasted again, part self-help encouragement not to suffer, does he want to accept the advice, just carry on to the inevitable, succumbing to the end of everything. Band intros thanking us and letting us know they will always be there for us in the digital realm forevermore.
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