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In Heaven and You is a one-man project with its host being Alex Vallejo. It was recorded by Colin Marston of Infidel?/Castro! fame. Eidolons is a sonic experimental album filled to the brim with musical doodlings that somehow manage to coalesce and form a cohesive unit. Amazingly at only six tracks and twenty-three minutes long it somehow is able to capture you and take you along for a ride. You just don`t realize how long you`ve been gone as it`s the musical equivalent of a hard LSD trip. It`s weird how the hard-edged fast drum machine works overtop of the more sonic and chaotic atmospheres and of course the singing that at times is almost angelic.


Calamity Project: What you have here is a very thick, spacious experimental music brought to you by in heaven and you, a project by alex vallejo, out on george of infidel?/castro!'s record label bat hot axe records. This 6 track opus is dominantly electronic, however, there are parts that use organic instruments like bass and sometimes guitar (or at least i think it's guitar). the songs themselves have a dynamic range to them. going from abrasive, loud, distorted, and heavily intense to beautiful, atmospheric, and ambient. The vocals on here are often sung during the more melodic and ambient parts, and compliment the music very well. The lyrics deal with kind of a tragic romance kind of thing. very neat stuff. i was very impressed by this cd. i hope to hear more from both IHAY and bat hot axe! fans of avant garde/experimental kind of stuff should definitely grab this!




Signalfading:

In Heaven and You is, quite simply, Alex Vallejo and a drum machine. What he does with said drum machine is produce an interesting and effective goth album entitled " Eidolons".

Well-versed in Projekt label goth/darkwave, Mr. Vallejo mixes elements of Black Tape For A Blue Girl with Skinny Puppy and "Faith/Carnage Visors"-era Cure. "I'm preoccupied with adding a technical element to goth music," he states. "I haven't heard too much in this genre that plays with time signatures or non-diatonic harmony". Each track is comprised of various musical themes that intertwine... Some of those most hardest-edged moments segue very nicely into the more atmospheric phrasing. The only gripe I have about the mixing of "Eidolons" is that, on occasion, the bass end of the recording drowns out the vocals.


Slightly disconcerting, yet impressive, lyrics are delivered in the telltale ethereal fashion of most darkwave acts. Everyone should at least read the lyrics (which are printed in the disc packaging), as they are powerfully poetic and emotional. Throw in a few chanting devil voices, and you've got an eclectic collection of tracks that every fan of goth should own.