Helalyn Flowers - Nyctophilia / Limited Edition

With "Nyctophilia", Maxx and Noemi share their addiction to the night and transport us into their very own surrealistic nocturnal world where you will rapidly feel comfortable, far away from the daily routine, opening your mind to a unique mosaic of colors and emotions, plunging you into a sonic time tunnel sucking the 80s New Wave moody catchy melodies and re-injecting them into a 21st-century cyber industrial futuristic landscape, all reflected by HELALYN FLOWERS' unique sonic kaleidoscope.

This wonderful new album offers fast-sequenced electro dance grooves and highly catchy pop vox clashing onto powerful electric guitar riffs ("Tetrachromatic", the floor-killer "Kamikaze Angel", the NEW ORDER-ish and almost romantic "Beyond" or even the album title song "Nyctophilia"); but also timeless pop wave tunes with a modern dynamic touch evoking classic acts like CLAN OF XYMOX, THE CURE, GARY NUMAN, or even DEPECHE MODE ("Unleash The Wolves", "Breathless" and its addictive synth melodic lines, the darkwave goth pop "Run Away (With My Demons)" or even the oppressive gothic rock anthem "When It Is Not Black Enough"). All beautiful songs on which Noemi's voice evokes similarities with good old GHOST DANCE, SKELETAL FAMILY, SIOUXSIE, but also GARBAGE and other WITHIN TEMPTATION. Last but not least, HELALYN FLOWERS also stand for more upfront raging industrial metal moments with impressive adrenaline-pumping, revolted vocal assaults ("Let Me In" and the edgy and almost self-destructive cyber pop rock of "Morphine").

With "Nyctophilia", the alluring Italian duo offers us an escape from our basic down-to-Earth lifestyle towards the exciting dark side of the world where we acquire a deeper confidence with our own personal demons and turn them into sources of inspiration feeding our creative flow.

The limited edition of the album holds a 12-track bonus disc featuring 3 amazing remixes by the band itself, revealing Maxx's impressive ability to mutate his own dark songs into forceful club anthems! Add to this a sonic orgy of remixes of the band's last club hit single "Kamikaze Angel" rendered in the most varied styles, ranging from hard dance to pop rock through lo-fi electro and other future electro. Last but not least, a very alluring duet on "Beyond" with the enigmatic IMJUDAS, Maxx's very own and promising dark pop solo-project whose debut album is expected later this year...

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