What Ends Starts Again

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 823564801001

Brand Chorme Dream

Manufacture Chrome Dreams

The first album by Rubicon basically the U.K. goth rockers Fields of the Nephilim with Andy Delany replacing Carl McCoy on vocals is a less pretentious and slightly poppier effort than anything the previous incarnation had managed. (Think Love and Rockets, not Bauhaus.) A huge part of the change is Delany"s much less over the top voice, a controlled baritone subtly reminiscent of Peter Murphy and, at times, Peter Gabriel. McCoy also seems to have taken the Nephilims" occasional metallic tendencies with him; What Starts, Ends is a collection of ten lengthy, moody pop songs with occasional feints toward ambient music in spots, as in the lengthy coda to the gently propulsive "Brave Hearts." 2005.