64 minutes, 48 seconds

Delerium
Stone Tower

The Delerium story ended for me after the release of Karma, in 1997. Subsequent albums (Poem, Chimera, etc.) had by then mutated the project's sound too far into the realm of soulful pop. They became platforms for other singers to strut their stuff (for Canadian radio?) over Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber's kinetic electronica.

Stone Tower, on the other hand, is a relic from the early, ambient industrial days of Delerium, a slow-moving slab of Middle Eastern-tinged atmospheres and thudding, ritualistic percussion. I often wonder what fans of recent Delerium must think when they explore the band's back catalog: "Horrifying! How can people actually listen to this?"

Bill and Rhys, I can relate. I get that a lot.

Also today:

64:47 In the Nursery, Man with a Movie Camera
64:47 Vas, Sunyata
64:46 Fin de Siècle, Archives, Vol. 1
64:41 Cenobita, Metamorfosis
64:39 Die Form, Archives & Documents (CD 2 of 2)
64:39 Virtual Embrace, Escape to Insane
64:36 Terence Fixmer, Silence Control
64:35 Numina, Trancension (CD 1 of 2)
64:33 Empusae, Funestus