It All Falls Apart is the final album by Rockford Illinois The Funeral March sadly the bands lead singer and founder member Joe Whiteaker died, just after the album was recorded and produced by William Faith at 13 studios in Chicago. The Band are Joe Whiteaker, Darius McCaskey, Wayne Thiele, with help from Rob Hyman, Ria Aursjoen, Renard Platine, Jeff Goins and Joel De Luna. The album also features re-mixes of the singles by Tweaker, Bellhead and Joy Thieves. All proceeds from this album will be going to Joe Whiteaker's widow and two children.
The album opens with Stars At Night a dancefloor ready Cult meets Sisters Of Mercy goth song, ready to be twirled across a dancefloor too, they gaze at the stars together trying to resist what fate has drawn them too.
Shadow Games are happening in the middle of the rainy night, will you ever get rid of that bitter taste for what happened to cause this fatal game to be undertaken, can there ever be a way back or have you really gone over the edge this time.
Bobblehead a slow remembrance of a friend whose presence is fading fast, will they even be thought of as affectionately as that Bobblehead you've always treasured.
Save Us has a dark brooding riff, guitars build hoping to find a way to Save us from all the tragedy we are constantly living through, like 69 Eyes glowering at us for all eternity. With Ria's backing vocals adding ethereal screams into the ever-deepening void, how do you stop the world from burning to the ground.
It All Falls Apart the full 6-minute version, bitter and twisted that you've been drained of everything, by the succubus who has infested your life, till you're certain that everything will end in tragedy. The doomy drums and guitars create the bleak dismay that is more prevalent in the 2020's than at any time I can remember.
Stars At Night (Tweaker Remix) turns a club banger into more of a chilled out laid-back slow seduction under the night sky. This seems like it's been stripped of everything I loved about the original version.
It All Falls Apart (Bellhead remix) pushes the vocals upfront and centre, to make sure you really understand how far down the rabbit hole we really are. All the pain and sorrow of this mess are made clear. Towards the end the drums become a lot more skittery than on the original album version before it fades out.
It All Falls Apart (Joy Thieves Remix) is in no was as republican as Joy Thieves would seem from there name, this seems to want to turn this into a late 80's indie goth tune, with sparkling guitars and the drums coming in waves, like they are powerful injections, after the pulsing guitars and ephemeral backing harmonies, letting us drift alone in our sadness, while everything Falls Apart.
The album closes with Stars At Night (Tweaker Instrumental Remix) obviously aimed at alternative and EBM dancefloors with your local talent adding their own vocals, to the rather stripped back dubby version, that a club DJ will add all sorts of effects too, or just drop it in as part of a mix.
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