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Review: 'Mayflower Madame'
'Prepared For A Nightmare'   

-  Label: 'Only Lovers Records/Bandcamp/Little Cloud Records'
-  Genre: 'Post-Rock' -  Release Date: '27.3.20.'

Our Rating:
Norwegian Goth influenced Post-punk that seems to be just dark enough for the times we are living through.

Honestly you can't make up that a band would be putting out an album whose lead and title track are called Prepared For A Nightmare would be released during the current Covid 19 clampdown, even if the nightmare this darkly goth rock song evokes is nothing quite as scary as reality right now it does feel right for our times and reminds me a good bit of The Creatures but with a male singer.

Vultures has a good dance floor almost death rock feel to it as if they want to be the missing link between Echo & The Bunnymen and Sisters of Mercy while sounding like they don't have the ego problems that combination might bring, the dark wave edge may make you want to do some ghost dancing to it too.

Swallow is slightly mellower but still darkly trippy as if they are trying to swallow something that doesn't go down too easily.

Ludwig Meidner opens like they are channelling Jesus & Mary Chain paying tribute to the bands favorite expressionist painter and the music is just as dark and twisted as Ludwig Meidner's works, if nothing else this song will make a good few people check out his art and that is no bad thing.

Never Turning (In Time) starts slowly plotting it's way into your brain as you sit and try to figure out which Wasted Youth song they have stolen the guitar line from is it Paris France or I Wish I Was A Girl? Either way this is sparse delicate and quite wonderful.

Sacred Core sounds like they want the room to be rotating like they've recorded through Leslie speakers an incantation to search for whoever the band consider there divine to be.
The Night Before, you know the one when all the pubs and clubs were still open and you could go out and have fun, and then everything went away and this song is like a mournful lament for how things used to be before everything changed for the worse.

Goldmine reminds me of bands like Cold Cave and Cauldronated although it doesn't have nasty enough bass for either of those bands. But what it does have is the sort of beats that will get loads of people up and dancing at a good dark wave club night.

A Future Promise no matter the one they make in the lyrics is to go out and see Mayflower Madame if they ever play here and to encourage all the friends I know who will love this bands sound live to show up, they probably need to play at Slimelight or somewhere equally goth to make it right but yes we should all make an effort to get out and see them live when that is again possible.

The album closes with Endless Shimmer a nice dark piece of well shimmer pop to make sure the dark gloomy nights give way to a good spring and summer this is dark music that feels uplifting.

Find out more at https://mayflowermadame.bandcamp.com/album/prepared-for-a-nightmare http://www.onlyloversrecords.com/vultures-nouveau-clip-de-mayflower-madame/ https://www.facebook.com/mayflowermadame
  author: simonovitch

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