the greatest
author: derek knowles
i love this band it so sad but thats how i like my music. this is one of the best bands on this web site and every body shoould bye this album its great
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Impressive.
author: Christopher McDaniel
Now this is what I have been waiting for. This cd is AMAZING. The material is haunting, dark and ethereal, yet starkly beautiful. Buy this, trust me!
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This is the way gothic music was meant to sound.
author: Smother Magazine
Sounding otherworldly, The Minstrels tell tales of loss, melancholy, and darkness. Bleak and stripped down vocals are barren alongside acoustic instruments and ambient soundscapes. Driving rhythms bind it all together. This is the way gothic music was meant to sound.
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...gypsy-spinning, sonorous compositions...about transcendence
author: Three Imaginary Girls (Chris Estey)
AstroPOP! for November 2006
By Chris Estey and TIG
The world's first and only astrological forecast
(and podcast) told entirely in record reviews.
It's November, and we've got a new Congress and a new AstroPOP! Rejoice!
AstroPOP! for November includes Action Suits, Le Tigre, Oxford Collapse, Bears, Favourite Sons, M. Coast, Archie Bronson Outfit, The Minstrels, and more.
Libra (September 23 - October 23) Libra enjoys the dark pleasures of the fall season. Even thoughts of everything ending can give a strange joy to someone so concerned with balance and control. Knowing that we don't control everything helps one embrace the fires and cold night air, and this month's threnody comes to us via The Minstrels.
Their elegant ode to decomposition, "Melt Into The Bed," is the perfect way to end the move and look forward to the resurrection in the springtime. Not the most swinging tune on their tellingly named full-length, Our Cruel Demise, but it's not the first time decay comes up as a topic.
On this gypsy-spinning, plucked and strummed album the subject matter is usually more about transcendence on sonorous compositions like "Dove Into My Heart" or the zero to the bone "Her Heart The Queen."
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