Wonderland is the fifth full-length studio album by British gothic band Nosferatu , released March 7, 2011 via Dark Fortune Records and soon reissued by Pandaimonium Records . The disc was the first studio work of the team since 1997 . The album is dedicated to the memory of actress and writer Ingrid Pitt , who died in 2010 .
| Wonderland | ||||
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| Nosferatu Studio Album | ||||
| Date of issue | March 7, 2011 | |||
| Genre | gothic rock | |||
| Duration | 46:07 | |||
| Producer | Louis de ray | |||
| A country |  United Kingdom | |||
| Labels | Dark Fortune Records , Pandaimonium Records | |||
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The release of Wonderland was preceded by releases of three singles - “Somebody Put Something in My Drink” ( 2005 ), “Black Hole” ( 2010 ) and “Horror Holiday” ( 2011 ).
Content
- 1 recording process
- 2 Criticism and style
- 3 List of Songs
- 4 Members
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Recording Process
The recording of Wonderland was a difficult test for the group: work on the album began back in 2004 , and was finally completed only in January 2011. In the process of creating the disc, the team has changed again.
In order to achieve a powerful, but at the same time soft sound, the musicians first recorded all the songs on tape, and only then digitized [1] . A lot of work required the final mixing of the compositions. “In the song“ Black Hole ”, for example, there are parts of drums Belle [Star] and Eddie [McEville], as well as parts of a drum machine, drums and about thirty vocals ... And that's not counting the strings, choral inserts, harpsichord , guitars and bass guitars ... At least two songs from the album have carefully hidden sound tricks, ”said the band’s frontman Louis De Ray [1] .
According to De Ray, Wonderland is for him a very special work, “a record that he dreamed of making since his seventeenth birthday,” “anything but an ordinary album” [1] . He also admitted that he wanted to make the new disc “blue and cold” rather than “red and hot” as the band's earlier releases, and that the special sound of the compositions was largely due to the fact that he spent most of his work on the album in snowy winter, shutting himself up in Earth Terminal studio - “in isolation, among snow and pure white cold” [1] .
Criticism and Style
Critic Didier Becku appreciated the album, expressing the opinion that Wonderland immediately after the release will become a “Gothic classic”, despite the presence of some psychedelic elements atypical for the genre [2] . He considered the track “Horror Holiday” to be the most successful composition presented on the disc, and among other songs he noted the “beautiful ballad” of “Wonderland” and the “typically gothic” of “Silver” and “Bombers”; the only failure of the musicians, from his point of view, was the “terrible” cover version of the Ramones song “Somebody Put Something in My Drink” [2] .
A similar opinion in his review was voiced by the browser of the MetalStorm Internet portal. According to him, Wonderland is still inferior to the band's early albums (for example, Rise ), but the album sounds good thanks to the soulful vocals of Luis De Ray, “beautiful” keyboard parts and a good rhythm section; the reviewer named “Horror Holiday” as the best song, and the Ramones considered the cover version “interesting” [3] .
According to Sonic Seducer magazine Karin Hoog, Wonderland Nosferatu "surpassed themselves." She described the disc as “extraordinarily soulful and soul-taking,” emphasizing “dark, velvety vocals” and calling the title track the best song from the album. Hoog also praised the “very memorable” “Bombers” and “Horror Holiday” and praised the cover version of “Somebody Put Something in My Drink” [4] .
The Nosferatu version of "Somebody Put Something in My Drink", released in 2005 as a separate single, was also written by critic George Hovall of Sonic Seducer . He pointed out that the general mood of this song is not very well combined with Nosferatu’s own melancholy manner, although at the same time the cover version cannot be called bad [5] .
List of Songs
The author of all texts is Louis De Ray.
| No. | Title | Composer | Duration | ||||||
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| one. | "Horror Holiday" | Damien De Ville, Louis De Ray, Nevin | 5:18 | ||||||
| 2. | "Wonderland" | Louis de ray | 6:07 | ||||||
| 3. | "Jackal" | Nevin | 0:43 | ||||||
| four. | Silver | Louis de ray | 5:52 | ||||||
| 5. | "Bombers" | Damien De Ville, Louis De Ray | 5:02 | ||||||
| 6. | "Entwined" | Louis De Ray, Nevin | 5:14 | ||||||
| 7. | "Black Hole" | Damien De Ville, Louis De Ray, Nevin | 5:29 | ||||||
| 8. | "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" | Ramones cover version | 3:10 | ||||||
| 9. | "Specter" | Louis de ray | 2:22 | ||||||
| 10. | "Monument" | Louis de ray | 6:56 am | ||||||
| 46:07 | |||||||||
Record Members
- Louis De Ray - vocals , programming , electric guitar (second)
- Damien De Ville - Electric Guitar (Leading)
- Nevin “MoonShadow” - bass (except for the track “Somebody Put Something in My Drink”)
- Stefan Diablo - bass ("Somebody Put Something in My Drink")
- Belle Star - drums (except for the track "Bombers")
- Eddie McEville - drums ("Bombers" and "Black Hole")
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 P. Emerson Williams. The Principles of Goth Orchestration - An Interview with Nosferatu . Dominion Music Magazine (July 12, 2011). Date of treatment November 9, 2011. Archived on September 3, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Didier Becu. Wonderland review (nid.) . Dark Entries Online Music Magazine (April 21, 2011). Date of treatment November 10, 2011. Archived February 1, 2012.
- ↑ DerRozzengarten. Wonderland review . MetalStorm.net (July 7, 2011). Date of treatment November 10, 2011. Archived on September 3, 2012.
- ↑ Karin Hoog. Wonderland review (German) . Sonic Seducer (No.5 / 2011) . Date of treatment March 26, 2012. Archived May 23, 2012.
- ↑ Georg Howahl. "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" review (German) . Sonic Seducer (No. 7-8 / 2005) . Date of treatment November 10, 2011. Archived February 1, 2012.