English translation of the Dutch article:
| Poesie Noire: Love Is Colder Than Death |
| "You never know with Jo Casters, we've
written this already many times. But with this album "Love is colder than death" he beats everything. It seems that the New Beat had a positive effect on him because this Poesie Noire is unrecognizable. No samples, no electronics, no more growling. Instead of this we get a sensitive album full of acoustic instruments, soft, darkbrown vocals, black romanticism. We can hear the very early Poesie Noire again, the period of Gioconda Smile when Casters and Co were an alternative danceband with recognizable songs. The recent fans are not gonna like this because Casters (cause Poesie Noire = Casters) returns to his roots, back to the guitars and good lyrics. We like this album a lot, also cause Casters mention in the bio some bands we like a lot, like The Cure, The The, Nick cave... bands who dig to the essential meaning of pop or rockmusic, bands who have got a story to tell. Casters has some things to tell and he is doing that brilliantly.Songs like "Spiral", "Icicle" and "Ocean Of Tears" are really touching.... what can you more expect from a record." Dirk Hermans
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by Patrik Kruse & David Hulet, translation by Jürgen Vanvlasselaer. |
15/01/2000 |