While Dead Can Dance utilized folk music to court Renaissance Goths, Sam Rosenthal went after high-brow graphic designers by means of darkwave chamber music.
Swirling, moody, and introspective, Halo Star is what we have come to expect from cutting-edge group Black Tape For A Blue Girl, a longtime underground darling.
Ashen-faced lovers who equate death with the soul-sapping pain of passion fill this minimalist recording while maintaining meaning for the crushed velvet Goth.
Even with Lucian Casselman’s soaring soprano voice, Remnants of a Deeper Purity is hardly to be considered “Ethereal Goth.” The music is far too grounded.