POESIE NOIRE - Love Is Colder Than Death

LP Antler Subway 1989
CD Antler Subway 1989 with bonus tracks



"Poesie Noire were a Belgian band that rose to prominence in the mid-80's and whose active career lasted until the early 1990s. Their Belgian origins and tendency to develop a goth-oriented, synthetic, gloomy universe with low-pitched voices (...) had them categorized as EBM such as other Belgian members of the 1980s industrial music scene like à;GRUMH or A Split-Second. However, much in the manner of various renowned Belgian EBM bands like The Neon Judgement and, to some extent, Front 242, they declared, through their music, a will to step away from the usual industrial aggressiveness that characterized Electronic Body Music and developed a more mainstream accessible dark pop sound that helped them to be regarded as plain New Wave or Goth New Wave".
(Wikipedia.com)

"'You never know with Jo Casters', we've written this already many times. But with this album Love Is Colder Than Death he beats everything. It seems that the New Beat had a positive effect on him because this Poesie Noire is unrecognizable. No samples, no electronics, no more growling. Instead of this we get a sensitive album full of acoustic instruments, soft, darkbrown vocals, black romanticism. We can hear the very early Poesie Noire again, the period of Gioconda Smile when Casters and Co. were an alternative danceband with recognizable songs".
(Dirk Hermans, Backstage review)

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