This is the fourth album by Lycia, the darkwave / doomgaze producing a really solid (as in dense) piece of work here. The songs are epic, big booming omnious goth noise classics reminding me sometimes of the likes of Fushitsusha. Multi-layered reverb guitar effects echo amid pounding drums accompanying whispered vocals which sound like they come straight from the underworld.
Its not a heavy album but its pure emotion, the tones and feel tug at your heart strings and your soul like the anguish at the end of the world. The epic "A presence in the woods" starts things off with a slow ponderous yet darkly beautiful rock noise, and the album more or less continues on from that in the same vein.
Songs like "pray" sound like the soundtrack to the desolation of the end, but amid all the noise is hope maybe, a spark. There is a lot to like here and a lot to hear too, originally this was a double album lasting nearly 2 hours but the Silber edition has been edited slightly to fit on one disc. An (almost) endless descent into doom.
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