neverending white lights

2007 / 5 stars / neverending white lights / reviews — No Comments
19
Jan 08

Act II: The Blood And The Life Eternal (2007) by Neverending White Lights

Genre: indescribably indie
Rating:
Check Out: “The Living,” “Always,” “Dove Coloured Sky,” and “The Warning”
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This, the second album by Neverending White Lights, is simply perfection. Like blood, the songs flow and ebb through the lyrics, and are decidedly less morbid than the lyrics from Act I. “The Living,” “Black is the Colour of My True Love’s Heart,” and “Always” give Act II the impetus that was lacking in Act I. Act I was an album for reflection, but Act II shows active learning and living.

I cannot recommend this one highly enough. Daniel Victor has truly created the best album of 2007.

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2005 / 4 stars / neverending white lights / reviews — No Comments
19
Jan 08

Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies (2005) by Neverending White Lights

Genre: indescribably indie
Rating: ½
Check Out: “The Grace,” “From What I Once Was,” “A Littlepiece,” and “Age of Consent”
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Neverending White Lights’ first album is a study in grief, spirituality, and the unknown. Daniel Victor has only failed in the songs’ repetitive lyrics and singers’ predictability. “The Grace” featuring Dallas Green is distinctly and refreshingly different from City and Colour’s Sometimes, but Raine Maida in “Liar” sounds exactly the way he did in Our Lady Peace’s Gravity.

Nevertheless, this is an album worth the price and the effort to get through. Listening to it with the lights off is guaranteed to give you dark dreams full of meaning that you won’t remember when you wake up.

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