Opalestial by
Sleeping Peonies and
Clouds Collide
This is very strange. Both of these bands belonged to the record compant Khrysanthoney, which was branded as "black metal with sugar" run by some guy in Scandanavia I think. They had a bunch of releases scheduled for later this year and he was pumping it up for the past few months, but then for some reason he just shut the whole thing down a couple weeks ago. Like one day he was promoting this album and another one, the next everything was scrapped. So strange. And to top it off a few days after he closed the company, he apparently died. Just a very weird and sad series of events. I quite liked what they were doing.
Anyway, Clouds Collide and Sleeping Peonies had a split album in the works before all this insanity and decided to just self release it digitally rather than let it die. And im glad. Ive quite enjoyed SP's dream pop with a hint of black metal style and although I wasnt as sold on Clouds Collide's album from last year, from what I heard from this one itll be great. Also both parts of this album are
available for
free which is rad.
From how it sounds to me so far it's more dream pop than anything and that is a-ok with me.