Ostara are back a new album
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After two excursions into the field of alternative guitar rock, the British-Australian formation around Richard Levy has remembered its true strengths and with 'The Only Solace' has produced a breath takingly beautiful neofolk album which catapults Ostara right back to the spearhead of the genre.
Fatalistic lyrics full of abysmal thoughts, executed with sensitive vocals, carried by captivating melodies and crystal clear acoustic guitar accords. Far removed from cheap effect and unreflected symbolic games, Ostara creates a magical animist world under the spell of a tragic past and faced with an uncertain future. In their mystical world view they penetrate time and open the view for unforeseen connectivities. In this context many lyrics are revealed as traps, and mundane experiences take a cruel twist. Levy's lyrics surround the listener with comforting atmospheres and metaphors, a quality that is unique in the area of neofolk, just to awake the listener in an ungentle manner from sleep to reason.Hardly any other band understands how to express the silent tragic and heroic of the awakened individual so powerfully. And Ostara deserves to be listened to.
Released on Trisol and available January 25th, 2009.
Tracklista:
01 Victory Surrender
02 The First Day of Summer
03 Darkly Shining
04 Calling to the Storm
05 Pillow of Ashes
06 Architects of Ruin
07 Fields of Fire
08 The Carnival
09 Lanterns of the Storm
10 Rise Descending
11 Stilts & Crutches
12 The Only Solace
13 The Darkening
14 If the Dead could see
