The Shadow of Heaven

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AlbumAug 26 / 201310 songs, 50m 31s
Dream Pop Indie Pop
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8 / 10

A passionate howl from the gutter from Jamie Lee and his troupe of capital R-romantics.

8 / 10

A passionate howl from the gutter from Jamie Lee and his troupe of capital R-romantics.

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Exploring The Shadow of Heaven is like walking around a cold, cavernous, stately mansion. The ecclesiastical architecture gives space for the tracks to resonate, and Jamie Lee’s soft crooning echoes down its corridors, seeking out musings on mortality and isolation. Gloom permeates; deeply melancholic Goodnight London, with insistent piano its only accompaniment, evokes an urban loneliness; likewise Black treads mournfully into night as the album ends.

Exploring The Shadow of Heaven is like walking around a cold, cavernous, stately mansion. The ecclesiastical architecture gives space for the tracks to resonate, and Jamie Lee’s soft crooning echoes down its corridors, seeking out musings on mortality and isolation. Gloom permeates; deeply melancholic Goodnight London, with insistent piano its only accompaniment, evokes an urban loneliness; likewise Black treads mournfully into night as the album ends.

8.5 / 10

MONEY's The Shadow of Heaven feels both epic in scope and poetic in tone, shunning expected notions of pop to deal with weighty concepts, spacious arrangements, and lyrical preoccupations with the wider concerns of humanity.

8.5 / 10

MONEY's The Shadow of Heaven feels both epic in scope and poetic in tone, shunning expected notions of pop to deal with weighty concepts, spacious arrangements, and lyrical preoccupations with the wider concerns of humanity.

8 / 10

Album review: MONEY's debut album for Bella Union, 'The Shadow Of Heaven', comes under the Clash critical microscope, and rolls away with a hearty recommendation...

8 / 10

Album review: MONEY's debut album for Bella Union, 'The Shadow Of Heaven', comes under the Clash critical microscope, and rolls away with a hearty recommendation...

8 / 10

8 / 10

Mancunian rockers Money sound like they could really start something with this epic debut, writes <strong>Michael Hann</strong>

Mancunian rockers Money sound like they could really start something with this epic debut, writes <strong>Michael Hann</strong>

Album Reviews: MONEY - The Shadow Of Heaven

Album Reviews: MONEY - The Shadow Of Heaven

Mancunian’s devotional debut album is a potential world beater. CD review by Kieron Tyler

Mancunian’s devotional debut album is a potential world beater. CD review by Kieron Tyler

7 / 10

7 / 10