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Tara Jane, under the solo project Caress, released her debut album, “Night Call,” inspired by 4AD bands and contemporary artists. It’s a darkwave album that everyone, even those not fans, must listen to.
Caress’s music blends captivating beats, analogue synths, and guitar melodies filled with the cavernous reverb from early 1980s gothic bands. It’s cold yet welcoming, with an ambiguity of feelings.
Night Call has a pleasant atmosphere of nostalgia and melancholy, a modern version of Siouxsie Sioux. The Stranger brings more weight, more sadness, and a cold, synthetic sound with an introspective female voice, fulfilled with personality, and it’s one of my favorite songs.
In Our Afterlife, Caress moves away from synth music into a post-punk approach, with references to Cocteau Twins and Faith and the Muse. It’s a dark, eerie song with hypnotic beats that makes you wanna dance all night along. Temporary Lover goes straight into post-punk, with a less melancholic and more cheerful song.
Dream Girl has a synthpop tune, marked by a monotonous beat, a lot of synthesizers, as song from the 1980s with ethereal vocals. Mortal Flaw embraces synthpop, with its tribal beat uprising along the song. It has a dark sensuality cutting through the beats that disputes our attention.
Unchained fuses the beginning and the second half of the album, blending synthpop, ethereal, shoegaze, and darkwave. It’s more experimental, with elements that needs our attention. Dark Age finishes with an epic theme, lifeful, giving a contrasting color to the dark tunes of this recording. It is a conflict to all the melancholy and despair in the rest of this album.
The album is excellent. Tara has already shown a lot of creative ability with the cover of Patti Smith’s Dancing Barefoot and now presents herself to the world in a mature, consistent manner. Congratulations on the work.