The Tearless Life – Conversations With Angels
(Other Voices
Records)
Out Now
From the embers of the criminally underrated Vukovar come
The Tearless Life, a rebirth of sorts, a new life. No compromise, ploughing a furrow in their
own field, Conversations With Angels is the celestial start to something galactic. Surely.
There’s a slightly commercial edge to the sound but not in a
repetitive, predictable way but more in that each track flows from one to the
next, beautifully. Instrumentally, there is power and melody in
equal measure, vocally it is competent and well-timed. There are squealing synth excerpts over
powerful drumbeats and off-kilter basslines with dual voices which add a depth
and a slightly unsettling ambience.
Call it cult-pop if you like, call it inducing psychoactivity,
Conversations With Angels is certainly a trip best listened to as a complete
piece rather than individual tracks. It leaps from genre to genre unafraid to
experiment but confident enough to be comfortable in its own skin. You really couldn’t ask for more from a debut
album.
