ELAINE HOWLEY Vinilo y CD

Review: Cork based musician Elaine Howley is part of many locally successful bands including The Altered Hours and Crevice, but this is her debut solo venture. The Distance Between Heart And Mouth is the haunting final culmination of an audio diary first noted down on a four-track tape recorder, later translated into gorgeous musical form. Glitchy darkwave and boxy dream pop tempered by ghostly vestiges of goth are among its sonics, as the album slinks through nine synthy meditations on intimacy, communication and ritual.