MY DYING BRIDE - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
February 5, 2004, 20 years ago
(Peaceville)
When you've dealt with My Dying Bride long enough you come to realize that there's this continuum the band finds itself on, and that bit of linear baseline isn't going anywhere left of centre any time soon. Sure, fate brought us the off-kilter 34.788% (a vastly under-rated record), but that divergence was quickly corrected by the on-track The Light At The End Of The World but a year later. Songs Of Darkness finds the Bride in its usual dirge state, things slowed down maybe just a bit, but the clinical depression left fully intact. As always, there's lots of sexual undertones courtesy of vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe and, of course, you know you're pretty much getting yourself into the soundtrack to a funeral via your shiny, new My Dying Bride long-player. It's all par the course, I think. Maybe even a bit too predictably so.
