CD: CDVIR92
RELEASED: 1999
LABEL: Virgin

01. Vocal
02. Beautyproof
03. Shine
04. Higher
05. Sirens
06. Strange Colour Blue
07. This Old House
08. Electric
09. Salt
10. Belladonna
11. Norwegian Hammerworks Corp
12. Quite Emotional
13. Terraplane

Madrugada is a Norwegian group that reflects the mood of the new millennium: atmospheric, introspective, fluid, mysterious and sparse but elegant: A sort of melancholic road movie sound-track under the Northern lights. industrial silence is the artistic extension of the 4AD releases from the 80's (e.g., This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance etc). Industrial Silence is not a new age release but a post-modern one where the voice is used as an instrument in order to create introspec-tive beauty that reflects a modern sensitivity. An extraordinary mixture of American alternative rock and melancholy ala Mazzy Star, Jim Morrison. Chris Isaac and/or Grant Lee Buffalo. The songs on this album are focused around the Madrugada melancholy - soothing, grey, but still blistering blue. The superb Sirens starts like a Crime & the City Solution epos, a minimal, but enthralling guitar theme takes over, and leads the song into a demon-ridden panorama, saturated with emotions. Everything here fits like hand in glove: the repetitive bass foundation, the emotionally loaded guitar, the dynamic build-up of the song, the soothing break, the melody, the lyrics (apparently about feelings of existential solitude). Pure blue excellence!