2011, Matador
Violet Cries is the haunting, powerful debut from Brighton, England's Esben and the Witch, a trio composed of Rachel Davies, Daniel Copeman and Thomas Fisher playing an assortment of guitars, effects, keyboards and a single monumental tom-tom. Esben paint a thick palette of sound, with echoes of late Scott Walker and Nick Cave in the instrumentation, Flowers of Romance-era PiL and Gang Gang Dance in its tribal excursions, and female vocalists from Lisa Gerrard to PJ Harvey in Davies's powerful tremelo voice. Mysterious, elliptical and literary, this confrontational trio is poised to take the world by storm.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Argyria |
| 2 | Marching Song |
| 3 | Marine Fields Glow |
| 4 | Light Streams |
| 5 | Hexagons IV |
| 6 | Chorea |
| 7 | Warpath |
| 8 | Battlecry/Mimicry |
| 9 | Eumenides |
| 10 | Swans |
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