Sorry for the more-than-a-month absence, finding the required free time for a post is a challenge. I’m back with March’s only dark dose entry, but it’s one that deserves a month all to it’s own.

Lycia is a band friends and strangers have been telling me about for years. For whatever reason, I sometimes neglect to follow-up on music recommendations for years at a time.. and end up regretting it. Judging by the album “The Burning Circle and Then Dust” — which was originally released in 1995 — this is one of those times I regret my delay. The song I’m posting tonight is an incredible concoction of the ethereal weightiness of Fields of the Nephilim, the inescapable sorrow of Shape of Despair and the beautifully floating shoegaze of Slowdive. The moody atmosphere is as thick as it gets — melt into the melodic sea of hauntingly beautiful darkness that floats your way at 1:31.