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The Wardrobe
Cups In Cupboard
All Questions
Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $16.00
On Cups In Cupboard, Andrew Liles joins Tony
Wakeford for their first outing as The Wardrobe. The album
finds Liles adopting a disquieting sensibility to match
Wakeford's death-folk credo. The two waltz through sampled
constructions of baroque woodwinds and creaking ballroom
melodies that resemble Philip Jeck's manifestation of
ghostly antiquity minus the tricknological flares. An
eerie fog settles in the looping structures that Wakeford
and Liles produce, broken by an urgent surge of acoustic
guitar chords reflecting Wakeford's balladry in Sol Invictus.
Even without Wakeford's neo-pagan lyrics, his song-based
interludes acquire a heroic Nitzchean demeanor which counterpoints
the album's dust and shadow. Very nice indeed!
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