Piano Magic - Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet (2012) FLAC

Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet, Piano Magic's 11th official album sees them emerging from beneath the wreckage of previous guitar-heavy releases to re-investigate the darker, more electronic sonic themes of their earlier work. Instant parallels will inevitably be drawn with the ghostly chamber pop of 1999's Artists Rifles and the even-earlier surreal romanticism of Low Birth Weight. At the core, once again, Glen Johnson's unashamedly nihilistic ruminations on the human condition, though now shrouded in foggy analogue synth washes, pulsing heart beats, cathedral reverbs and Joe Meek-esque spectral vox. Indeed, this is an album of beautiful, indispensable baroque ghostliness, of disconnected hearts and oceans. Touchstones would be the new, airless beauty of Regis and Raim; the timeless gravitas of Dead Can Dance and the urban, though melodic isolationist output of late 70's/early 80's Factory Records.

Tracks:
01 Piano Magic - Matin (1:13)
02 Piano Magic - Judas (5:18)
03 Piano Magic - The Slightest Of Threads (4:20)
04 Piano Magic - Sing Something (4:08)
05 Piano Magic - Chemical (20Mg) (4:12)
06 Piano Magic - Lost Antiphony (3:55)
07 Piano Magic - Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet (3:31)
08 Piano Magic - The Way We Treat The Animals (6:50)
09 Piano Magic - Jar Of Echoes (4:59)
10 Piano Magic - Higher Definition (3:43)
11 Piano Magic - You Don't Need Me To Tell You (4:05)
12 Piano Magic - A Secret Never Told (4:36)
13 Piano Magic - (Reprise) (0:16)