Christopher Richard Barker London, UK
Singer-songwriter who co-wrote "The Fall & Rise of Edgar Bourchier & The Horrors of War" with Mick Harvey (Mute,
2018).
Author of "Tenebrous Tales" (Ex Occidente Press, 2010), which featured the award-nominated novella 'The Melancholy Haunting of Nicholas Parkes', a ghost story inspired by the life & times of Nick Drake.
Currently working on a new project titled "The Dark Flowers Of Love".
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Christopher Richard Barker recommends:
Not On This Earth
by Alain Johannes
Alain gracefully weaves natural emotion into his highly accomplished compositions. Innovative vocal melodies & subtle nods to the Far East infuse the vaguely glam-rock glow of this stylish EP.
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Teenage Snuff Film
by Rowland S. Howard
Rowland S. H's finest achievement. Searing, swooping, elegiac riffs. Discordant, finely-honed feedback. Tragic, seemingly nihilistic sentiments sang with amused dark irony.
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Delirium Tremens
by Mick Harvey
My favourite of Mick's highly accomplished Serge albums because of 'I Envisage', with its eerie menace & vivid stream of imagery. In fact I could easily envisage this track in a David Lynch film.
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XIXA cull from various strains of Latin music, from Chicha (psychedelic cumbia from Peru) to Tejano, infusing their "mystic desert rock" with a distinct sense of brooding.
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Pugnacious post-punk has unexpected melodies, bright guitars and bouncy rhythms. Jam out.
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Gilding The Lily - A Retrospective 1996-2021
by WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW
This retrospective compilation covers the last 25 years of dramatic darkwave from Austrian goth band Whispers in Shadow.
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