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Living With Eating Disorders - More Than This (Demo)

Reviewed by Clapperpaw on 02/12/2003

Tonight sleep begins with the sound of severing electronics. Andrea Kerr’s vocals soar in soothingly, followed by a rupture of ripping darkness that builds up and flows with tension, before bleeding into the ethereal backbeat of this dysfunctional ‘Lullaby’. The voice you hear lessens the blood pressure yet teases the images behind your eyes with a variation of schizophrenic soundscapes. Anaesthetic trip-hop beats and brooding Goth undertones wrestle each other with blades leaving a festival of scarlet all over your pillow. Meanwhile Kerr’s vocals bind the lacerations with a voice of lulling beauty and serenity. Kissing your subconscious with a throat of devastation. Both a casualty and nurse of her own instruments, her lyrics are the stitches when you’ve come undone, with aural-embroidered empathy and the dosage spoon-feeding you when your mouth is sore and surrendering, she will give you her voice...
This quartet are strengthened by painting a juxtaposition of cold and chilling backdrops with raw melancholy that reaches out to you in the foreground, searing into your skin. ‘Envy’ approaches you with two and a half minutes of Kerr’s voice now tinged with a sense of seduction, imploring you to listen and react. Once again lulling you in before elevating into a more frenzied percussive attack as her voice rises from her hiding place. LWED conjure up an airiness that slides between being merely eerie to gracefully claustrophobic. Final track ‘Fading Softly’ is where you finally get to dream as their sound sails down your throat and lingers in your gut.
This is a demo from a band that know all the right ingredients to creating well respected and received music but my only hope is that the music industry will hear their cry. Because Living With Eating Disorders seem set to prove so much more than this.

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	On 02/01/2004 17:17 Kitten said: Gorgeous review, makes me think they'd sound like Siousie Sioux or early angsty PJ Harvey covering Portishead. Given some of your descriptions I feel that as one lets their sound sail down your throat, it'll be rather painful as it's got razor blades attached. They don't sound like a band who are 'easy listening'. They do however sound majestic and breathtaking. Sadly those features are rarely milestones on the road to commercial success and while indeed I'm sure you've discovered a band of rare beauty, it'll be even rarer if they get the treatment from the music industry they deserve.

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On 02/01/2004 17:17 Kitten said:
Gorgeous review, makes me think they'd sound like Siousie Sioux or early angsty PJ Harvey covering Portishead. Given some of your descriptions I feel that as one lets their sound sail down your throat, it'll be rather painful as it's got razor blades attached. They don't sound like a band who are 'easy listening'. They do however sound majestic and breathtaking. Sadly those features are rarely milestones on the road to commercial success and while indeed I'm sure you've discovered a band of rare beauty, it'll be even rarer if they get the treatment from the music industry they deserve.

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