The landscape she describes is bleak and atmospheric, inviting an affinity with dark powers.
Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent (Little, Brown).This bleak but gorgeously atmospheric début is based on the life of the last woman to be executed in Iceland, in 1830.
Burial Rites, _by Hannah Kent (Little, Brown)._This bleak but gorgeously atmospheric début is based on the life of the last woman to be executed in Iceland, in 1830.
Somewhere between Ennio Morricone, Talk Talk and late-period Massive Attack, it is atmospheric, if relentlessly bleak, with the exception of cult director Abel Ferrara's imitation of Bob Dylan on 'Open Up Your Eyes'.
An impressively complex plot, wonderfully atmospheric descriptions of the bleak estuary landscape, an engaging protagonist and some tasty villains get this series off to a flying start.
With Elena Kats-Chernin's score of bleak, sawing stings and fairground accordion adding it own atmospheric gloss, The 3 Dancers is a clever, absorbing response to Picasso's painting, pitched between carnivalesque energy and a dark dance of death.
D. James Baker Former Administrator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Washington, D.C. Hendrik Hertzberg's bleak assessment of American climate policy is on the mark, and should be viewed in the context of an even bleaker global scene, in which China and India will continue their rapid economic growth and accompanying emissions (Comment, February 7th).
Still only available as an early alpha build on Steam, but already immensely popular, Dean Hall's bleak, utterly unsentimental zombie survival game is unbearably tense and atmospheric.
With the help of Henning Kristiansen's atmospheric cinematography, in a range of muted primary colours, Axel captures the bleak Jutland peninsula of the 1870s, where live two unmarried sisters (Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel), daughters of the former pastor, and founder of an austere religious sect, who devote themselves to keeping alive his memory and his teachings in the tiny remote community.
What we said: "The mood is atmospheric, edgy English pastoral, with the drifting Old Father Thames matched against the gently bleak lament Six Dukes, and Schuette's cool vocals backed by fine harmony singing, strings, piano, banjo and slide guitar," wrote Robin Denselow, in the Guardian.
