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With Flowers from Exile', the Luxembourgish folk formation ROME surpass their work to date, which already includes three full-length albums in just a few years. Just as early releases were apocalyptic and aggressive in nature, the expressionistically-tinged CD Masse Mensch Material' (2008) could be said to have a revealed inner vision. ROME's universe was expanded by proud resignation and sweet melancholy. The latest album, Flowers from Exile' (2009) goes a step further in this direction. Similar to the early albums of the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen, stories from the (inner) exile are told here with fatalistic gestures and dark timbre; of the longing for a lost homeland, of loneliness and eternal travels, but also of unexpected friends far away and the actual homeland in your own heart.
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