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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release for James Kelly, the frontman of black metal band Altar of Plagues, was produced by the Haxan Cloak and includes influences from electronic, metal, and pop music.
- Record Label: Tri Angle
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Indie Electronic
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| Heart Is a Far Light | |
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| Rain is all I had but now thats over, Inside a place we made before you broke it. Rain is all I knew but then it dried up, We could never, ever, have... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Jun 10, 2014It succeeds as an exploration of bodies, but more specifically, of the kinds of tension created by the dichotomies between them and within them, throughout an intimately crafted pop record that treads that careful line between wallowing and pleasure in the way that all the very best pop records do.
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Jun 9, 2014As desolate and coldly beautiful as a windswept moor, What’s Between refuses to yield simple answers but rewards deep exploration.
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Jun 9, 2014WIFE marries the intensity and raw energy of Kelly's background in metal with the subtler inflections of electronica and aquatic pop fluidity; in doing so, he forges an intense album, well worth getting sucked into.
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Jun 9, 2014Handling the production duties on What's Between is the Haxan Cloak, whose own cavernous soundscapes are perhaps the most metal thing in electronic music these days. The pairing is apt and the results are fantastic.
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UncutJun 9, 2014A bravura production job, assisted by The Haxan Cloak, gives What's Between arcane depths. [Jul 2014, p.83]
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Jun 10, 2014It all makes for a complex, often beautiful debut album that affords Kelly even more expression and possibilities than what he's done before.
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Jun 11, 2014What's Between provides some compelling glimpses at Kelly's cimmerian headspace, but knowing that he possesses the ability and the vision to flesh out his own ideas, it's hard not to be left wanting more.