Crown
The End Of All Things
Dark and moody; bleak and sublime; airy and crushing; mesmerizing and engrossing; bold yet unerring; strident, danceable and suffocating, all at the same time. An album oozing with tasteful, fragile hooklines flirting with the abyss they are hovering above, encapsulated within an ingenious major production, provided by one half of C R O W N himself: David Husser has worked as a sound engineer, producer and musician all across the globe with artists like Alan Wilder o f Depeche Mode or at Peter Gabriel's Real World studio, and has toured with his industrial band Y Front alongside Rammstein in the 90s. Paul Kendall (Mute Records, NIN, Nick Cave) said about David: "a distorting diamond... we have collaborated on a number of projects and I have been amazed by his ability to teach an old dog new tricks. He is simply the best recording engineer I have ever met". The other half of C R O W N is founding father and vocalist Stephane Azam, who has worked as live sound engineer for French blackgaze pioneers Alcest for years. Setphane's low, soothing voice on The End Of All Things comes as a complete surprise to anyone familiar with the band's previous 2 records, which featured mostly screamed vocals - a fact showcasing the immense versatility of the musicians at work here. FOR FANS OF NINE INCH NAILS, JUNIUS, MASSIVE ATTACK, DEPECHE MODE, GODFLESH, SWANS, KILLING JOKE, THE YOUNG GODS, KRAFTWERK, NEUBAUTEN, BRIAN ENO, CULT OF LUNA.