1702 - Anathema Untouchable 1 & 2 2012

Untouchable’s first part is a blissful, almost archaic song, full of sweeping folk-rock harmonies and fully content in it’s own sense of grace and power. Unashamedly romantic in tone, there’s a skillful ebb and flow to writer Daniel Cavanagh’s work that captures their appeal: all passion, without pretense. The latter part is very "post-rocky" in nature. The songs begins emotively with piano, which is soon accompanied by a soft acoustic strumming and some background strings. The duet heard in this part is absolutely breathtaking. The song builds throughout until it becomes a bombastic crescendo at the end. This is one of Anathema's many strong suits. For they can do slowly "move your lighters to the beat" song, and then transmute that feeling into an urgency only felt when a cataclysm is near.