The Light The Dead See by Soulsavers

Released:  May 22, 2012
Rating:  71.67
Genre: Downbeat

I may be a little harder on them than the major critics, but I still think this is a great album.

The media refers to them as downtempo.  I'd probably have called it prog rock.  Some of it might even qualify as chamber pop.  Their bio describes it this way "This British downtempo electronica duo with rock, gospel, and country influences was formed by producers/remixers Rich Machin and Ian Glover" and AMG's review of this album characterizes them as "the production duo who prefers the sounds of spaghetti westerns to synthesizers"

This is the fourth full length studio album for the duo from Britain since their first in 2003.   This is my second album from them.  My introduction to the band was 09's Broken, with Mark Lannegan (see earlier review of Lannegan's Blues Funeral) on vocals.  David Gahan, from Depeche Mode, provides the vocals this time out.

To get a sense of who they are, give a listen to the love son In The Morning or the VERY downbeat Gone Too Far.