COVENANT

This already ninth Covenant album opens with a 2 minute crescendo soundscape which is followed by the ‘typical’ late Covenant sounding song I Close my Eyes and the darker sounding Morning Star. Darkness closes in even more on Cold Reading which may remind one of the older sound of Covenant’s first albums like Sequencer and Europe. Undoubtedly, this track is the dance floor filler and highlight of this album.

Quite remarkable is the cover version of Lee Hazlewood’s A Rider on a White Horse, a country music anthem that is transformed into a sombre electro requiem duet that feels like Depeche Mode. The previously released advance single Sound Mirrors and If I give You my Soul are tracks that most definitely will move Covenant fans towards the dance floor.

Besides the fact that four out of the eleven tracks on this album are instrumentals and soundscape interludes, The Blinding Dark is a decent (mini) album in the fine Covenant tradition.

Fred GADGET
08/12/2016