Artist: The Snake The Cross The Crown
Tracks: 10
Length: 48:12 minutes
Highlights: “Empires,” “On The Threshold Of Eternity,” “Echolalia”
The weather these days is anything but predictable. On one of the nicer days this week I found myself putting a bit of bounce in my step to the sound of The Snake The Cross The Crown’s latest album, “Mander Salis,” which debuted in late 2004. It could have been the unusually nice day, but I would rather attribute the upbeat feeling I encountered to what was playing in my ears. An array of vocals, soothing trance-like melodies and string accompaniment were among a display of elements that contributed to my “feel good” listening experience.
“Mander Salis” opens with an almost hypnotic aura and continues onto a broader spectrum, combining folk into its already harmonic background. Lyrics and sound, suggest a world of thought-provoked symbolism, and create the same amount of influence. Word on the street – and it’s hard to believe – is that the CD was rushed into the recording studio.
Track five, “On The Threshold of Eternity,” incorporates even more elements of genre-invasion, covered with lyrical genius and sprinkled with falsetto charm. While “The Laughing Man,” track eight, combines what one would first assume are clich