The Palace Of Tears (Leah and Erick Darkling)

#ethereal #darkwave #shoegaze 

With Somber beauty and otherworldly seduction, The Palace of Tears fuses hypnotic electronics, heavily layered processed guitars and sultry vocals that captivate, creating an ethereal sonic amalgam that transcends temporal boundaries. Haunting beauty - ghostly - evocative - sensual. 

The duo’s unique alchemy draws upon musical influences as varied as post-punk, gothic rock, shoegaze, ambient drone, jazz, electronica, and neoclassical.  

Both artists collaboratively bring to the table a plethora of diverse experiences in the creative performance world, with influences from theater, dance, circus, opera, and butoh. In eerie fashion, the album spans a period of utter decadence in New Orleans, following the entire Mardi Gras season, with it's masks, costumes, revelry, debauchery, and fantastic indulgence, only to have this swiftly shift into deep isolation, despair, and loneliness brought about through the pandemic.