
[ Cadenza ] ( buy vinyl ) Last year Thomas Melchior revealed a darker side of his musical personality in his powerful second album, No Disco Future . With texture, repetition and context as the dominant themes, slits of light and shades of tone color shone through even brighter when they appeared in the elegiac strains of "Water Soul," the reduced regal progressions of "Her Majesty," and "Black Mother"'s mellifluous low end. With the Cadenza-released "Who Can Find Me EP," Melchior's focus returns to more melodic territory, albeit with melancholic overtones [...]