Thursday, August 16, 2012

Album Review: Dakota Suite – Waiting For The Dawn To Crawl Through And Take Away Your Life

This was Dakota Suite’s first album in 4 years.  Chris Hooson and co re-emerged in 2007 with this mainly vocal and guitar album.  The opening two slow guitar-based tracks, Never Much To Say and A Darkness of Moon (duet with Anna Elias) set the tone.  Uw Wanhopige Vrees is more experimental, a mainly electronic track with snatches of female vocals here and there.  The next two tracks, piano ballad Because Our Lie Breathes Differently and the emotive I Don’t Understand Your Medicine are darker still before the brief cello instrumental Early Century Maple acts as a palette cleanser.
The second half the album is not that different from the first, with the lengthy All Your Hopes Gone Cold and the trumpet-based Over A Loveless Winter standing out.  Penultimate track Brittle With Sorrow is a dramatic string flourish before the album ends on a somewhat downbeat note with All That I Can Hold Near.
It's worth visiting the world of Dakota Suite.  At times it can be a world of pain, but amidst the gloom lies quiet beauty.

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