Track Listing

1. Pixy - Led
2. Where the Wind Goes
3. Madeline
4. And Then
5. Day and Night
6. Roses
7. Prophecy
8. Another Time
9. Let Me hold On
10. Apology
11. Cup

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #301660 in Music
• Released on: 1999-01-01
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Beautifull melancholic female vocals combined with dark and slow ethereal music

Amazon.com
Though the Shroud have the band name and the cover art of gloomy, Gothic dark wavers, this record's sound pulses with uptempo love songs and velvety rockers. Engaging in a straight-up, guitar-driven way, the music is simultaneously accessible and mysterious, like familiar surroundings suddenly darkened in a candle-lit power outage. Though well-crafted and produced to a high sheen, it's also still edgy and passionate. Take the verses of "Pixy-Led": Lydia Fortner's vocals cascade through a melancholic guitar line, giving way to the big chords and enticingly teasing keyboard riff in the chorus. Elsewhere, the arpeggiated guitar work and organic atmospherics of "And Then" almost sound like a forgotten Moody Blues B-side. Still, this is more Siouxie Sioux than classic-rock homage. The baroque feel and swirling vocals of songs like "Let Me Hold On" conjure up images of a romanticized past, lavish and ornate as a four-poster bed covered with rose petals. --Matthew Cooke

Octavia - Outburn Magazine #7 - Sept. 98
The Shroud create music that is just too beautiful to ignore. Lydia's voice is immaculate - melancholic, yet uplifting, and the instrumentation, musicianship, and quality recording make A Dark Moon Night as professional as it gets on an independent budget. Their dark rock sound is delicate yet filled with passion and mysticism. At times the guitars remind me of The Cure's Disintegration era, but over the years the Shroud have developed and nurtured their own sound which has fully manifested itself on A Dark Moon Night. Each song on the album is a carefully crafted gem that would be difficult not to like. A Dark Moon Night is definitely going to be on my top 10 list for this year, and if you don't hear it for yourself, you'll be missing out.

Customer Reviews

The best band to kick-off the new millennium!
This is one of the most innovative bands I've heard in many years! The beautiful Lydia Fortner not only writes intelligent lyrics and melodies, but is a first class singer! The band's arrangements are very professional and complement the songs and the singer. the band not only writes melodic dreamy tunes, but proves they can "rock out" on DAY AND NIGHT and PROPHECY as well. WHERE THE WIND GOES would become an "instant" hit if mainstream radio and mtv would play it. This band has taken "GOTHIC" ROCK music beyond its usual boundaries, and broken many rules along the way, creating an atmopheric sound,with an "edge" that is truely their own. I would highly recommend this bands Cd's not only to fans of "GOTH" music, but\ fans of Alternative and Rock music who are bored with the talentless sound-alikes that MTV has been pushing for years. I anticipate the arrival of their next Cd. Look for this band to break out in the Mainstream within the next two years!

A truely terrific album
Not cold, this album is notibly dark but so very warm and refreshing. The voice; a smokey hybrid of Stevie Nix and Gitane Demone. Lydia Fortners voice has a smooth and absolute sound. The music is so very reminding of "The Cures" "Disentegration" on the way to "Wish" being that the guitar effects are so very similar and the pace is mellow and developing. "A Dark Moon Night" is an album that keeps giving all the way through, very well balanced with intelligent lyrics wise in mysticism that are further displayed on "In the Garden".(the shrouds follow up album which is also very good) This album is a truley wonderful album, invoking a mood like waves rolling on the beach on a warm night of a quiet red/gold ending summer day. Very entertaining band to listen to. The Shroud are very worthy of thier praise.

Oh my Goth
This is a pretty darn good album.

I have to admit that I was thouroughly underwhelmed on the first few listens. But like all good stuff, after a while I began to think it was OK, then pretty good, now I am sold.

The Shroud combine several talented individuals in creating their unique sound. Lydia Fortner has an extremley talented voice, from the higher note too deep sensous growls. Her versility is well shown by the second track "where the wind goes" which just melts into your ears. The guitars are understated, and rely mainly on Lydias voice to gain effect. This is best comparible to other guitar darkwave bands- maybe like the Cranes with a different vocalist, or perhaps early Cure.

If you like guitar based goth, any darkwave, any shoegazer or even just feel like some mellow sounds this comes recommended. If you are of a more industrial bent- say Collide, Curve or Wench, you may find this a bit too tame, but I think it would suit even you for those "quiet moments".