Cold

Lycia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 2, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Silber
• ASIN: B000V7KIOU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Gothic based Ambient/Metal from the infamous Projekt label. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect gothic hunting music, December 24, 2000

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Krista (Tempe, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold (Audio CD)

I took this CD with me to Paris and I listened to it when I was walking around Notre Dame cathedral in the rain. At one point, I looked up and watched the rain fall out of a gargoyle's mouth and somehow this music just fit the scene. The music has an errie depth to it and is highly recommended listening music when walking around old cemetaries and gothic buildings. Also bring along their CD, "Estrella" for the same effects.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Put on a coat before hitting "PLAY.", February 13, 2001

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Scott Sweet "Music Freak" (Colorado Springs, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold (Audio CD)

"Cold" is the only cd I've heard that can lower your body temperature. The reverb and sound layering are so strong that if you relax, you're in an endless field, blinded by the sunlight on the icy ground. Lycia creates an even deeper sense of place than on the previous album, "The Burning Circle and Then Dust." The guitar style is like always: instead of playing a lot of fast notes (the dreaded solo - see MAINSTREAM MUSIC), play one note, then another until there's ten of 'em stacked up.

Mike Van Portfleet's vocals suit the music perfectly, but Tara Vanflower gets to shine on "Baltica." I think the song's just about mashing a snowman, but it's beautiful all the same.

Some tracks are more experimental, less coherent than the others. They all have a (slow) beat that reinforces the winter theme. My favorites are "Bare," "Baltica" and "December."

Van Portfleet also has sense enough not put in a lot of filler on "Cold." It only took nine songs to convey the mood, and it's long enough at that.

One star for each song that I REALLY liked. "Cold" is a good expression of Lycia's more melodic haze of sound. If you like "Ionia," you'll like "Cold" and vice versa.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take a walk in the 'cold' with Lycia filling your senses, December 8, 2003

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Clarissa "MoonGoddess" (Ontario, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold (Audio CD)

The air is brisk and the clouds are dark, casting day into night as the sky threatens to open up with a downpour of rain, or possibly even snow. Those are the type of images that run through my head as I listen to 'Cold' by the premier darkwave group, Lycia. With songs titled "December" and "Frozen", it's no wonder why so many choose to put this album on the top of their play list during the Winter. It sets the mood for a cruel season of icy temperatures that rarely shines its face of mercy.

Actually, the music here is very atmospheric and the resonate guitars and light synth flourishes add a depth of emotion to the haunting sounds gently swirling, like dancing teardrops falling from above, soaking the earth, around the angelic Tara Vanflower, who joined Lycia for the first time here (excuse me if I'm wrong on that assumption for I'm not 100% sure on that), and the darker crooning of the melancholic Mike Van Portfleet. I can respectfully say that Lycia is probably the best thing to come out of Projekt records and I believe that hell will freeze over once they stop producing such ominous (yet beautiful) melodies that seem to linger, as if suspended in time, for they're able to brew some of the most amazing ambient-goth tunes and no one has come even remotely close to overriding their perfection.

I still think 'Estrella' is Lycia's masterpiece but, from all I've heard so far, they can honestly do no wrong. I'm not much for mood music but this I can tolerate.