Nocturnal Prose - Our Mi$ery Is Their Currency LP Review

This band is from Texas but it sounds like they should be from somewhere colder and foggier. A place where at a certain time of night, the shadows come alive and dance in the realm of the living. Perhaps centuries of fallen souls grow restless and are beginning to channel their despair into the vessels that inhabit the area. In hopes of reaching the outside world and communicating their woe and agony to anyone who will listen and take pity. This I feel could be what Nocturnal Prose are projecting through their music. Through this other dimensional pain, come lessons and warnings to us, the living here and now. 

I wouldn't say Nocturnal Prose is a full on goth or death rock band, but they certainly cut in heavy slices of it into their sound salad. The rest of it is sprinkled with what remind me of darker new wave like Red Lorry Yellow Lorry or The Chameleons. The singer has a voice that sounds like it's echoing back to you from inside a great stone tomb and the guitars and bass take a walk down a similar path as Echo and The Bunnymen or early Cure. This LP contains five studio recorded, mixed and mastered tracks along with the bands demos on the B-Side.  

Ghosts of the past certainly haunt this band and this album, that much is evident. Nocturnal Prose sing verses that serve as reindeers of how tortured our souls become the more time we spend in this realm. Tortures that need not bind us or weigh us down unless we give them power to do so. Stars, show your fires, let light see your dark desires.

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