Album Review: Warhaus - We Fucked A Flame Into Being

Maarten Devoldere of Belgian indie act Balthazar gets some solo happening with his Warhaus project, dropping a mysteriously dark and sultry album that contemplates love.

Lady Chatterley's Lover provides the album's title, and Warhaus shifts from desire to desperation as Devoldere tries to grasp the wild excesses of love's ecstatic and more elusive moments. Devoldere tries his hand at crooning in deep, gravelly tones lyrics that revel in a certain existential angst. He's accompanied by sensuously lush '60s-styled orchestral French pop. Gainsbourg and Cohen are obvious references, as are Tindersticks and Cave, but Warhaus just drifts away into a dreamy reverie.