Rising Shadows comprises of the triumvirate of Guillaume Le Huche, Linda-Li and the ever busy, Fredrik Klingwall.  'Found In The Cold', the second release by Rising Shadows, while gifted with a similar vein to that of their first nevertheless lays fresh snows to chill the black earth. There is a powerful gothic seam cutting through the music but it is of a 'northern gothic' with images of dark, snow-mantled trees replacing the crumbling architecture of Poe or Walpole. One aspect 'Found In The Cold' conjures is that of atmosphere and the album opener, 'Vacui' creates a vivid sense of vast, open landscapes. This image is voiced by the use of an organ; an instrument Klingwall uses throughout 'Found In The Cold' to good effect. Linda-Li represents the sole vocalist and here on the album her voice is wrapped within the tapestries of rich compositions in such a way that sweetens the sombre mood towards which the music sometimes gazes. On tracks such as ''The Leaving' and 'Fate Of Us All' Linda-Li's sumptuous voice is layered, providing a myriad of emotions that linger long after the tracks finish. The album is framed by it's instrumentation; organ, keyboard, bass and voice that intermingle to produce haunting melodies that hint of a lost folklore and are enlivened by crisp chimes and dulcimer-like strings. The narrative to this album is progressed through the music with Linda-Li's voice adding a disparate humanity to the passing of time the tracks elicit; a leaving and a return. 'The Carriage' begins that return with an undercurrent of harsh rumbles that cling to the earth below sonorous organ music - a recognition and sorrow at the fleeting life we all experience. There's a nice vinyl skip into 'Nothing Left But The Memories', a track that has a music-box like quality, hinting at the retention of memory through music heard in happier times. In places vaguely recalling an essence of Black Tape for a Blue Girl or All About Eve, Rising Shadows have nevertheless arose within their own landscape, one through which their music sweeps and swells amongst shadowed woods and whispering tall grasses that sway under cold winds. 'Found In The Cold' succeeds in realizing a work awash with subtle musical arrangements that conveys the cold solitude of life and death with bitter introspection.

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