Vital Weekly
Following their 'Singing Through Trees' 3" CD on Dirty Demos (see Vital Weekly 592) they return with five new tracks on 'Spectral Doves Of Skeletal Intensity' on their home label Dead Sea Liner. Still we know nothing about this troupe but they continue with some mighty fine ambient music of a darker nature; darker than the previous lot it seems to me. Ringing sounds of endless sustaining guitar, metal sheets or some such, make up these pieces, and this time it has the right length. Five pieces in about thirty five minutes of music that will surely appeal to the likes of Mirror, Ora or Monos. Very nice.

Feast of hate and Fear
TEXTURED BIRD TRANSMISSION - Spectral Doves of Skeletal Intensity CD-R (Dead Sea Liner) Textured Bird Transmission is... well, I don't know, and supposedly neither does their label. Either way, they produce some really dark ambient tunes, a sort of soundtrack for early 1900s Expressionist German film. I can hear this playing well over movies like Nosferatu or Der Golem. Creepy synths bleep, guitars feedback, metal clangs, all of it over layers of soundscapes and textured drone. While I dig the music, what I really like - almost as much - is the layout. Hand-painted waves of red, orange and yellow (though I've seen green on other copies as well) over thick cardstock. Time consuming, I'm sure, but quite impressive. Limited to only forty-eight copies, so chances are you're a washed up sucker that missed out. Too bad for you, I guess. (March 20, 2008)