“Black Hearts” Music: Dark & Eerie
I don’t know what’s going on with me this week — a reaction to the relentless cheeriness of Christmas? — that I find myself listening this music. Seven years after the highly acclaimed “Armageddon Gigolo,” Simone Salvatori and Stefano Puri once again find their paths crossing: “Black Hearts in Black Suits” is the result of three years of work, composed by Puri specifically for Spiritual Front, classed as as “suicide pop” but somehow not depressing to me. The new project is based on the poetry of filmmaker Rainer Maria Fassbinder. A concept album more akin to an opera than to the traditional LP, “Black Hearts” travels from Franz Schubert to Nick Cave, Michael Nyman to David Tibet, from Arvo Pärt to Marc Almond.
