Lycia - Ionia (1991)

"it's excellent mood music, if you like that kind of mood."

"I do not know what i would even do without this hypnotic piece of sonic poetry. When my brain is drowning, when I cannot sleep, I always turn to this album."

"Depressive & bizarre but still romantic album"

"The genre is sometimes called "Dark Wave"; a subset of New Age and New Wave"

"darkly visionary album"




To listen to this the day must be grey, preferable dusk or dawn, with some snow or rain. A steel-grey spring afternoon with ominous clouds works too. Lycia defines "gothic" music in my personal pantheon and because it has its roots in my youthful days I cannot judge it objectively. A deep part of me "likes that type of mood".

Here is a Lycia cover with great imagery of lighthouses and icy shores