Dvne's stunning third album Voidkind looks set to propel this expanded five-piece line-up (welcoming Maxime Keller on keyboards) to the top of their game.
Certainly Voidkind succeeds in finding new modes of expression for Dvne. The songs are more pointed, direct and memorable, but the soundscape still a radiant, evolving, hypnotic flow, the effect achieved with fewer layers of sonic ornamentation, consciously urging closer to Dvne’s incendiary live sound.
And despite the addition of a full-time keyboardist, Victor has no doubt about the album’s defining feature:
“We wanted very distinct left and right guitars, and punchier drums and bass, which would transcribe better live. And the synths needed to be clearer; it’s very easy to put five guitars on each side, loads of different vocals and keys, but then you end up watching a band with an album you really like, and the songs sound nothing like the record. That’s what we wanted to avoid. As soon as the song starts, we want people to immediately recognise the riff.”
Side A:
01 Summa Blasphemia
02 Eleonora
Side B:
03 Reaching for Telos
04 Reliquary
Side C:
005 Path of Dust
06 Sarmatae
07 Path of Ether
08 Abode of the Perfect Soul
Side D:
09 Pleroma
10 Cobalt Sun Necropolis
