LYCIA Vinyl & CDs

Review: A Day in the Stark Corner was the third album by American band Lycia, released in 1993 on Sam Rosenthal's Projekt Records. This much deserved reissue on Milan-based Avantgarde Records features all 10 original tracks which bear the Arizona outfit's well-known sound signatures: Mike VanPortfleet's bleak vocal delivery with wailing wall of noise guitars and haunting synth textures, underpinned by skeletal, reverberated rhythms of a minimalist nature. Tracks such as 'Pygmalion', 'The Body Electric', 'The Remnants & The Ruins' and 'Sorrow Is Her Name' are a zeitgeist of the early '90s ethereal darkwave subgenre.