Released: 2003
The Whisper of Dew is the second offering from Italian Goth band Mandragora Scream. Unlike their debut Fairytales From Hell’s Caves, a musical fantasy based around Dante’s Inferno that struck a sometimes uneasy balance of atmospherics and melodic doom, on this album the band concentrated its energies on the Goth elements of its music, an aspect which it handles quite well.
In fact, the band strives for perhaps a little too much atmosphere and as a result the songs flow together without too much setting them apart from one another, but Morgan Lacroix’s singing is much stronger and more confident than previously. It’s really her evocative and occasionally haunting vocal presence that really drives the songs and the high points are the moments when, as in ‘Rainbow Seeker’, she shifts into a higher, grittier gear and the band strides out with a heavier edge. While for most of The Whisper of Dew Mandragora Scream seems fairly content to just meander through various shades of quiet melancholy, when the album reaches its climax with the title track, the listener is given an insight into their true potential with a heavy atmosphere pervading through a rather more aggressive approach.
More discerning Goth rock fans won’t find much of note in The Whisper of Dew but those just tasting the waters may find it appealing.
- Issergia's Hope
- Silent Lullabies
- A Vision They Shared
- Velvet Eyes
- Iiaonman Iifbiich Vampires
- Labyrinth of Earth
- Lactate Veins
- Bloody Ballade
- Rainbow Seeker
- Close Every Door
- Crow's Love
- A Whisper of Dew
Rating: 45%
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