Tracks:
- I Wear Your Ring
- Baby Blue
- Chasing The Horizon
- Cut Through The Skin (Down To The Bone)
- Floatful & Remembering (the Scarlet Hours I Was A Rose)
- The Thistle In The Kiss
- Breathing Farewell’s Sigh
- Frost At Midnight
- When I’m Broken
- Inside The Dream
- In Spite of Everything
- Gynopedie #1
- Dies Irae
- I Wear Your Ring (Remix)
The New York Room’s 3rd release continues to showcase the group’s many sensibilities and influences including dream-pop, trip-hop, gothic, industrial, classical and even some jazz, fronted by a sweet siren’s melody over a backdrop of brooding melancholy. This latest release showcases the vocal talents of 4 different singers and fans of groups like Massive Attack, Portishead, This Mortal Coil, the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance and The Hope Blister will revel in the soaring soprano female vocals over a diverse tapestry of soundscapes.
A review from Chain DLK:
This is beautiful, dreamy, colourful, and brilliant! ...(the) music is diverse from dream-pop, jazz, new-age, gothic, darkwave, and trip-hop..."Baby Blue" and "Floatful and Remembering (The Scarlet Hours I Was A Rose)" have that Cocteau Twin sound flavor. The softly melodic "Breathing Farewell's Sigh" is a jazzy tune that can captivate the lover's heart...The New York Room has put alot of hard work in creating this superb album that is challenging, remarkable, seductive, romantic and sentimental. -Donovan Tate
A review from Grave Concerns:
Bringing a somewhat stylistically diverse musical blend to the table, The New York Room's Courtesan presents an ethereal/darkwave sound marked by angelic female vocals and keyboard arrangements that run the gamut from lush ethereal strings to more subdued piano pieces.... As a whole, The New York Room's Courtesan is a solid ethereal/darkwave offering that, despite its stylistic diversity, is fairly consistent and impressive. From its beautiful ethereal opener through an array of moody darkwave, airy ethereal tracks, mellow trip-hop, and more, the disc is interesting and emotive but never redundant. Ethereal/darkwave fans looking for something that doesn't conform to a given sonic mold should give Courtesan a spin." -Joshua Heinrich
A review from Legends Magazine:
The New York Room combines elements of folk, minimal ambient and sorrowful female vocals to really set a darker mood while not becoming suicidal. A nighttime sky with a few stars present, points of light pierce the occasional gloom of this otherwise sad record. Sometimes it's nice to sit back and let something like Courtesan wash over you and in the end take away your own morbid feelings with it. Closing your eyes you can be transported to a haunting yet somehow soothing place. Very therapeutic, very well made and craftily concocted. Now that I have The New York Room I'm going to dump my therapist tomorrow. -Marcus Pan
A review from Starvox:
"Chasing the Horizon" is particularly lovely from a vocal perspective... Instrumentally, there are hints of jazz on the languidly sensual “The Thistle In the Kiss” and the more brassy “Frost At Midnight,” while fans of the Cocteau Twins and Love Spirals Downwards will swoon with delight at the dizzy honeyed strums of “Baby Blue” and “Floatful & Remembering (The Scarlet Hours I Was A Rose).” Courtesan aims for prettiness over power, and succeeds admirably. Listen to this one when you're in the mood for something delicate, bittersweet and not unbearably taxing. -Matthew J