NEW CD's / Audra - Audra (2000)
(item no.: 184)

Label: Projekt
Released: 2000

Somewhere between a Tim Burton landscape and a Dorian Gray painting, the music of Audra is fraught with passion, strength and dissonant beauty. Songs built on the unsettled emotions of past relationships, the untimely passing of heroes and friends, fervent erotic fantasies and encounters with the divine. Creeping through layers of silvery guitar, propelled by an undulating bass line and driven by a bittersweet baritone, Audra’s hauntingly seductive melodies grab for the heart, but capture the soul.

Brothers Bret and Bart Helm form the core of Audra. Weaned on an early diet of Bowie, Bauhaus, Iggy Pop, Joy Division and Velvet Underground, the brothers began their musical union while young, their dichotomous personalities adding fuel to their creative energy. Singer and lyricist Bret Helm is the moody intellectual poet, while brother Bart’s paintbrush guitar tones provide a jagged edge to the band's music. Together, their common artistic vision is Audra, touching the nerve and moving the spirit in darkly mysterious hues.

“An opulent elegy to personal turmoil and psychosis, rhythmic nightmares driven by Bret Helm's somber, roiling vocals and an exquisitely understated sense of the morbid.” - Caitlin R. Kiernan, Carpe Noctem Magazine

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