PINHDAR returns with the ethereal A Sparkle On The Dark Water.

The album begins In The Woods with skipping electric synths, prickly guitar licks and dragging baselines carrying Cecilia’s angst into the Cold River where pummeling kick drums levitate Max’s winding guitar licks.

Home drags in with spatial chords punctuated with sparse percussion punctuating longing lyrics as Cecilia paints a portrait of lost dwellings that seem interdimensional.

The subterranean Little Light dances into deeper waters:

Will we be able to survive and

Shine in the dark?

Maybe…or perhaps not, for there exist harmonic Murderers of A Dying God that are:

Shouting

Despairing

Crying

Freaking out

Going mad

Is our fate as Humans death or merely madness?

Solanin opens with mourning synths as Cecilia whispers her urban observations accompanied by Max’s tasteful guitar plucks followed by orchestral notes and despairing tones;

We are like raindrops in a storm

Just before the big fall

We are like raindrops in a storm

Just before the big fall

then fades into a synthesized sea of Frozen Roses where choppy drums smatter Cecilia’s retrospective lament into haunting harmonies:

Ask the wind that whispers its

moans why the sun rises,

the stars shine but the darkness

remains

Abysses displays beautiful guitar chords over a marching drum that crescendos into hard rock At the Gates Of Dawn;

Darkness needs to be deep

for the the first stars to appear

mystical guitar licks, lazy drums and a silent piano.

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Purchase: https://pinhdar.bandcamp.com/album/a-sparkle-on-the-dark-water

Source: fruitsdemerrecords.com