Medusa

Clan of Xymox’s second album was also their last full length for 4AD, but they ended their short run there with one of their strongest releases, an elegant combination of the talents of its three original creative forces in Ronny Moorings, Anke Wolbert and Pieter Nooten. The gloom-shrouded intensity of the debut returns with greater sonic variety, from haunting synth textures to appropriately moody bass lines to industrial-dance rhythms, often tinged with a more forthright melodicism, as on “Agonised by Love,” “Masquerade” and the stirring “Michelle.”