Anathema - OptimistAfter Anathema's 2012 award winning album Weather Systems and 2014's spellbinding Distant Satellites, the ambient rockers are back with their eleventh full length, The Optimist. Out now on Kscope, The Optimist reveals some of the darkest, most challenging and unexpected music the sextet have put their name to. Anathema, led by brothers Daniel and Vincent Cavanagh, along with drummer John Douglas, singer Lee Douglas, bassist Jamie Cavanagh and drummer

aka Eugene Wilde seemed ready to become a megastar in the mid - '80's

let's the silence work -and thus creates narrative arcs of great coherence and percussive conciseness

A true form of blues with distinct Latin colours

' whilst fantasising over a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde love affair the funk-laden 'We Playin Bad Games' packs a punch with it's tale of free spirits entwined in a haze of late-night revelry

disposition of a cycle

Hans-Christoph Rademann - Requiem & Miserere

and a differentiated approach to the text that is not easy to combine with the long phrases and wide-ranging legato slurs

the Weepies)

This hour long session brings the authentic soothing sounds of tropical thunderstorms to your living space to help promote health and relaxation

Four Marine buddies share comic misadventures before being redeployed

but also far more potent

First appearing in 1973