With echoing vocals rising through wintry drones, and light reflecting off glazed guitars and billowing, shimmering electronics and effects, Quiet Moments is 64 minutes of expressive, eloquent, and chilling music.Ĭraig Hayes writes, “Lycia has provided some achingly blissful suites in the past, and Quiet Moments ranks up there with its very best work.” Creating that moody atmosphere is exactly what Lycia does best – turning the mournful into the majestic to make meditative suites. Lycia creates meaningful yearning imagery, and deep, immersive evocativeness. In a sense these are plaintive snapshots of memories - VanPortfleet’s personal recollections of an icy, distant past. The album explores eternal themes through glimpses into Mike’s private life and innermost thoughts. With emotionally raw songs and plenty of mournfulness, Quiet Moments is a deeply personal and honest album - delving into isolation, existence, love and loss. Quiet Moments presents a beautiful portrait of Lycia in 2013, reaching in and grasping at the heart with bittersweet, pensive, and luxurious sounds.” “It’s not often a band comes back from a long hiatus with anything approaching its best work,” writes Craig Hayes in PopMatters, “but with Quiet Moments Lycia has returned with an album as blissful and fascinating as Cold or The Burning Circle and then Dust. Written, performed, and recorded by Mike VanPortfleet with additional vocals from Tara Vanflower, these 11 tracks retain the band’s familiar hypnotic post-punk/dark rock muse while simultaneously sounding fresh and original. With 2013’s breathtaking and bewitching Quiet Moments, Lycia truly kicked off their second era. Projekt re-releases LYCIA’s out-of-print 9th album in a limited edition of 1000.
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