A release by an artist going under the name of Elegi on the Miasmah label was highly unlikely to be a set of Disney covers, was it?  I think this (highly rational) prejudice may have coloured my first exposure to Sistereis.  I swear I spent an hour picturing squealing puppies being taped to the deck of a sinking ship.  I couldn’t imagine wanting to listen to it again.

I did listen to it again though, whilst walking at dusk through an alien park in a foreign town.  From the second “Despotiets Vesen” sneaked (snuck?) from Deathprod vaults (think Treetop Drive) to the moment “Spill for Galerie” counted down to the end of its existence somewhere on a gloomy grassy heath, I found myself warming to the record’s icy charms.  The immaculateness of the execution (bad choice of word, oh those poor puppies!) can’t fail to impress; every brush of string, every breath of brass seems placed there just so, and just so as to interfere with the more nervous parts of my nervous system.

Listen to some tracks and buy it at Miasmah