Dead Soul - The Sheltering Sky (2015)

Those fiendishly inventive Swedes – Delta blues guitarist Anders Landelius and electronica warlock Niels Nielsen – return for another moody convocation of bleak introversion and spectral atmospherics as Dead Soul.

Ghost enthusiasts might recognise Niels from his pre-production and engineering contributions to Infestissumam, and sturdy melodic connections bridge that record to Dead Soul’s 2013 debut, *In The Darkness *– a mesmerising voyage into doomy industrial soundscapes and dark, baleful howls.

From the perky fusillade of disco-synth that opens Until The Last Breath, The Sheltering Sky portends something far less sinister, that is until Anders’ funereal baritone enters the electro-frenzy – a mournful and arresting brood around which the entire album is arranged. Beginning with Shattered Dreams, the mid-section drifts into a sludgy morass of lumbering tempos and clichés like ‘Life is the strangest thing, you don’t know what it will bring until it’s already there.’

Tracklist:
1.01 - Dead Soul - Until the Last Breath (7:06)
1.02 - Dead Soul - The Fool (4:15)
1.03 - Dead Soul - Shattered Dreams (5:56)
1.04 - Dead Soul - Inbetween (4:41)
1.05 - Dead Soul - Dirt Road (6:16)
1.06 - Dead Soul - Ladies & Gentlemen... (0:50)
1.07 - Dead Soul - Abyss (5:27)
1.08 - Dead Soul - Home by the Sea (3:47)
1.09 - Dead Soul - Thy Will Be Done (4:20)
1.10 - Dead Soul - The Final Day (4:54)