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Flowers From Exile

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i don't usually praise artists, i buy loads of music, listen and collect like a monk.
Rome has got amazingly better and better over the years. Now, Flowers from Exile is just flabbergasting. A real pop album with a strong dark edge like what you would expect from Leonard Cohen, early Nick Cave and heroin infused Depeche Mode all mixed up with Death in June's distance of looking at the world crumbling. Waltz, flamencos, ballads with a neofolk posture, this is what «alternative» was meant to be : Other, hybrid, dark, romantic and frighteningly beautiful.

This album is amazing. The closest thing I can compare it to is early Leonard Cohen, but with more instrumentation. Lead singer and songwriter Jerome Reuter deserves the comparison to Cohen, both in lyrical ability and in similarity of their singing style. One can also hear traces of David Bowie and Nick Cave. The music is lush, mesmerizing, and perfectly produced, evoking Spain in the 1930s with its Flamenco guitars and its sad cellos and violins interspersed with soundbites in German and Spanish.

Flowers From Exile is that rarest of albums that is beautiful enough to catch your attention at first listen, and deep enough to stay with you after many listens. High quality through and through.