“Learn to forget.” On Friday, July 3, Portuguese legends Moonspell return with their 14th studio album Far from God via Napalm Records, a romantic and melancholic record that thrives in the stripping away of the grand adornments and ornaments of past records. There is, of course, a healthy amount of synths on the album, but unlike previous records, they do not overwhelm with bombast or distract with an overly-symphonic pomp. It is a sleek, guitar-driven record given over to considerations of distance, of what was and might be, of the spaces between, and of the relationship of conflicting or adversarial … Continue reading “And I Keep The Dream to Forgive”: Moonspell‘s Far from God