Empty Space (Lycia album)

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Empty Space
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Studio album by Lycia
Released December 2, 2003 (2003-12-02)
Recorded November – December 1999 (1999-12)
Studio Lycium Music, Streetsboro, OH
Genre Dark wave, Ethereal wave
Length42:22
Label Silber
Producer Lycia
Lycia chronology
Tripping Back Into the Broken Days
(2002)		Empty Space
(2003)		 Fifth Sun
(2010)

Empty Space is the seventh studio album by Lycia, released on 2003 by Silber Records. [1]

Lycia is an American dark wave band formed in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona. The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet, Tara Vanflower and David Galas. Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in darkwave and ethereal wave styles. Their 1995 album The Burning Circle and Then Dust received some attention for the power pop hit song "Pray," and the album "remains a high point of American dark rock," according to Allmusic. Lycia's music is characterized by rich soundscapes and layers of echoed guitars, dark and ethereal keyboards, doomy drum machine beats, VanPortfleet's melancholic, whispered vocals and Vanflower's vivid voice. Trent Reznor and Peter Steele are some of their more well-known fans.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Tara Vanflower and Mike VanPortfleet.

Mike VanPortfleet is an American singer-songwriter and keyboard player, most recognized for founding the darkwave group Lycia in 1988. During the 2000s, his focus shifted from Lycia to several other musical projects which included his debut solo work, Beyond the Horizon Line.

No.TitleLength
1."Not Here, Not Anywhere"4:32
2."You Can Never Go Home Again"4:52
3."Persephone"4:26
4."Fur & Thistle"5:04
5."Hope is Here"5:04
6."Violent Violet"4:32
7."Bloody Basin"4:49
8."The Long Drive"5:05
9."This is the End"3:58

Personnel

Adapted from the Empty Space liner notes. [2]

Lycia
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Release History

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 2003 Silber CD silber032

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References

  1. ↑ "Lycia: Empty Space > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Empty Space (booklet). Lycia. Raleigh, North Carolina: Silber Records. 2004.
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