Tags: Reigns, The House On The Causeway

Reigns are like the soundtrack of a cult horror movie, doomed electronics and the whispered narrations of Farthing emit at a constant haunting level throughout this album. Farthing represents the ghoulish hooded man everyone is trying to escape from unsuccessfully. The mood in the album is similar, rarely changing direction, you don’t know whether to feel scared or slightly fatigued by its grandeur rock. But, Reigns have never be known for their interaction, nor vigour. The music needs to be indulged and absorbed, atmospherically Reigns are colossal monsters of experimental rock, but its all done quite calmly and efficiently. ’Everything Behind The Walls Have Been Razed’ and ’Crex, Crex, Crex’ are filled with the effects, glitches and the ethereal film-packaging that you’ve come to expect with a Reigns creation. They regularly dabble in instrumental coma-like sessions (’Mirrors At Night’ and ’Vaulted’) but it’s ’Mab Crease’ that sends the horror-flick-shudders down your vertebrae with Farling’s customary gothic crooning and soaring electronics, culminating in a crashing crescendo. The thing is, Reigns are not here to conquer the world, but what they will give you, is an insight of is there mysterious, yet extremely enchanting world, from a distance. You only have to look at the album’s sleeve and it gives you the sense that this isn’t going be a floral summertime record to play at a kids party. That is unless you want to scare the living shit out of them…..

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