Ashbury Heights - Take Cair Paramore
Anti-Ordinary
Beautiful Scum
Scars of a Lighthouse
I Can Kill You So Easily
Hope
Crescendo
Shades of Black
The Ashes in Her Breath
Night Creature
Medicine
Dancer’s Nocturne
Kingdom Confession
Unbearable Beauty
Invisible Man
When Yasmin Uhlin departed the duo after the release of 08’s ‘Morningstar in a Black Car EP,’ it ignited the tension that gradually increased in waiting for Anders Hagstrom’s next release as well as the ability of his new partner in crime. Not leaving us at all disappointed, ‘Take Cair Paramore’ features all the fundamentals of pristine Ashbury Heights record, just with the glitz and the glamour whacked right up.
With Kari Berg now the alter-ego’d ying to Hagstrom’s astute yang, it’s near impossible to not sit back and chortle under your breath as the two tear apart every facet of the falsely eccentric goth genre and introduce some intellectual brilliance of their own. The stand-alone guitar-driven album opener ‘Anti-Conformity’ hits the ground running with album plateau ‘Crescendo’ standing out as a slice of imaginative, stratospheric electronica that cackles manically from between the lines.
Representing the poison dart of the New Wave subgenre, Ashbury Heights have fought to be a recognised thespian on both the dancefloors and in the live environments. ‘Take Cair Paramore’ should push them from being merely a support for questionably, more famous acts and act as the springboard that Hagstrom and Berg need to be fired in to the mainstream.
Reviewed by Rhys Heal
Take Cair Paramore is out now via Out of Line
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