{"id":1190,"date":"2009-08-01T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T06:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2011-08-03T20:14:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:14:05","slug":"surge-et-illuminare-by-idle-lovell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/surge-et-illuminare-by-idle-lovell\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge Et Illuminare by Idle Lovell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Before Saviour Machine, before Dead Artist Syndrome, there was Idle Lovell. Idle Lovell was a side project by Michael Knott designed to be only for non-Christian audiences. So, while this is not the first Christian Goth band, it is one of the earliest examples of Goth music made by Christian artists. This six-song vinyl album is very hard to find today, but well-worth the search if you are in to bands that play dark synth-based dance music like the Sisters of Mercy.<\/p>\n

Two of the songs on this disc \u2013 \u201cShallow\u201d and \u201cI Can\u2019t Wait\u201d \u2013 were re-recorded by Knott on later albums. I like these early versions better. \u201cTouch Me In the Wind\u201d, the lead off track, was also included on the re-issue of The Lifesavers Poplife<\/em> (of all places). If you have heard that track, then you pretty much know what to expect from the rest of this too short album.<\/p>\n

This album was self-released (as the first album on Knott\u2019s Blonde Vinyl records), so the production values are a bit thin. But to many fans, that only adds to the coolness. I\u2019ve read that there are some weird ownership issues that might make a full re-issue of this album impossible. Too bad \u2013 this album needs to be heard.<\/p>\n[1984 Blonde Vinyl Records]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Saviour Machine, before Dead Artist Syndrome, there was Idle Lovell. Idle Lovell was a side project by Michael Knott designed to be only for non-Christian audiences. So, while this is not the first Christian Goth band, it is one … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[107,245],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-august-2009","category-music-review","tag-blonde-vinyl-records","tag-idle-lovell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}