Oh.... so that means cold wave or dark wave or call it what you like as long as it's a wave. I know that I can be cruel about some Belgian bands from the eighties, but I suppose we have to blame what was pop music from that era in mainland Europe, and our gloomy Mancunian friends for heading over to the low countries. I grew up with Manchester music, I don't need to hear it with a foreign accent.
Anyway, Spiral Of Silence were from the nineties (1991 onwards), so when we (well not me) were all in our baggies with floppy fringes, loving naff dance toons and sucking on tiny bits of paper, this lot were churning out some pretty good stuff in their own doomy melancholic way. Some of their lyrics are very very dark but melodically they work for me. The Joy Division tag is very clear, but they have developed the Belgian post-punk sound to add more clarity and melody to cold wave than was there before. Some pieces are much more liken to what Interpol were doing ten years later, but who ever thought Interpol were original? Cue more hate mail!
According to Discogs they released two full studio albums after a succession of tapes. Everything is unavailable and long deleted. Even the usual European resellers have nothing. I got these tracks from a blog follower in Italy (where he says they were quite popular), other blogs link to a "best of" compilation and some early demos but all links are dead. So, if any of you have some of their output, please get in touch and we could put together a full discography.
Here are seven songs so you can decide for yourself.
1. Leap2. She's Like A Suppo
3. Souls
4. Connection
5. Echo
6. How I Miss You
7. Across
