008bvllet LIHOLESIE “Boundless Thirst for the Outside” CD
Transient serenity of the previous album has gone. More Angst, more drums, more thrilling tunes! Go ahead! Beyond horizons! The fourth album of the project LIHOLESIE. More Industrial-Neofolk with barbaric drum patterns but keeping to the previous melodic/lyrical lines this time.  Enigmatic, dark, mysterious. Amid debris of  a bygone civilization.
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Tracklist:
1. Under a Leaden Sky
2. Boundless Thirst for the Outside
3. In Silence and Despair
4. Ravens
5. in Desolate Fields
6. The Eternal Wandering
7. The Sawn-song
8. At the Gates
9. Towards New Losses… Towards Empty Horizons…

This album is dedicated to all the wanderers of the cursed forests and men amongst ruins.

All instruments, music and sound production by Sever.
Recorded during 2005-2008.

(c) 2008 assavlt rex
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LIHOLESIE - Boundless Thirst for the Outside
This is LIHOLESIE’s fourth album. Reviews of the fist two albums are available, but I totally missed the third one from 2007, and it’s sold out by now. Too bad. But let’s focus on his fourth offering now, that goes under the nice title ”Boundless Thirst for the Outside”. LIHOLESIE’s musical evolution continues! Much of the plastic feeling from the old releases are gone, and the sound presented here is much more organic with tribal drums and xylophone, combined with dreamy flutes, mouth harp, some guitar lines and plenty ambient keyboard layers. The production is much stronger making the keyboards sound very thick and the contrast between the electric and the acoustic on this album is very prominent and most effective.
I especially fancy the second track, that starts by building up a quite forceful mood with waves of dark keyboard sounds and some drumming. After a while, the drums go really rapid, landing somewhere between drum ’n’ bass combined with tribal, almost shamanic, and behind them, a peaceful melody from a flute. Then it’s interlude time with some very drifting ambient sounds, before the drums get back in motion, this time accompanied by some of the most enchanting xylophone playing I’ve heard. As you might understand, this track, along with many others, takes some very unexpected turns, which is nothing but positive, since, well, after you’ve heard the intro on the old albums, you had pretty much heard it all and knew exactly what to expect.
The base in the sixth track “The Eternal Wandering” is a looped, murky electric guitar riff that could as well, with another distortion, be a black metal riff. It works just fine in symbiosis with the drums and the flutes. Also this track has an interlude part, though a very short one, but awesome nonetheless.
To give an even clearer picture of the variety in this album, I should mention the final track, that is pretty noisy and aggressive, yet a new side of this project that works perfectly.
I would still like to hear some singing, but LIHOLESIE’s sound is getting very original and very evocative and maybe, just maybe, vocals would be superfluous; his message reaches out just fine anyway. And when I think about it, there is so much going already, and I can’t really find a place for the vocals to fit.
Ehm, so. According to me, this is a huge leap forward for LIHOLESIE. Great work. I hope most of his listeners are pleased with this achievement even though much of the folk feeling in his music is severely reduced, giving space for more experiments and also more instruments. I will keep listening to this one once in a while, and I will make sure not to miss any eventual future material!
THE SHADOWS COMMENCE