Name: Silence of Another Kind
Brand: Inside Out Music
SKU: 719750
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Silence of Another Kind

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Album: Silence of Another Kind
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Shame
2)	Your Misery
3)	Falling
4)	Still Standing
5)	Is That All?
6)	Procession of Fools
7)	There Will Be No Miracles
8)	Not a Sound
9)	Silence of Another Kind

Album: Silence of Another Kind

Song Title

Time

Shame

Your Misery

Falling

Still Standing

Is That All?

Procession of Fools

There Will Be No Miracles

Not a Sound

Silence of Another Kind

Performer Notes

Personnel: Johan Wall‚n (keyboards, background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Janne Hansson.
Recording information: Green Genie.
Photographer: Ren‚ Rutten.
Most female-led goth metal acts tend to sound quite a bit like the two poles of the style, Nightwish's "Stevie Nicks goes black metal" vibe or Evanescence's considerably more pop-oriented style. Sweden's Paatos split the difference, avoiding both the commercial sheen of the latter and the Euro-metal clich‚s of the former; as a result, Silence of Another Kind sounds like nothing so much as a really good late-era Siouxsie and the Banshees record. Pertonella Nettermalm's attractively chilly, low-toned murmur of a voice is the band's most appealing feature, and her cello blends with Richard Nettermalm's musical saw and Johan Wall‚n's Mellotron and harmonium to create neo-psychedelic atmospheric touches around the songs' goth rock drones. "Your Misery" and "There Will Be No Miracles" (which sounds bizarrely like the Cardigans' less twee side) are particularly strong, catchy dark-pop songs, but the album as a whole is a surprisingly effective meld of pop hooks and moody posturing. ~ Stewart Mason