Hailing from Denver (USA), IA composes a kind of easy-listening new-wave music. We're not going back to the pure 80s stuff, but this good-old influence has been picked-up by IA and merged together with some more atmospheric parts and spooky male vocals. The sound is reaching a kind of soundtrack style, which might be the best forum for IA to spread their music around!

Reviewer: Side-Line Magazine - sideline.com

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Black Curtain Lodge" is the album project of the American Aron Beatty. The music of Invisible Asps encompasses electronic programming, tribal rhythms and gothic mayhem; where the vocals express the conflicts between the reason and emotion. The atmosphere evoked on the CD is one of obscure cinematics with the vocals reminiscent of James Ray and the feeling of the period of transition between Joy Division and New Order. Highlights include "Erototoxins," "Adapted," and "Elementally Flawed". This invisible serpent can pass through imperceptibly to the eye, however its noise, will be able to generate a powerful sonic poisonous effect into the future.

Reviewer: Luiz Soncini - Elegy Iberica

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Very well crafted, and very musical. The music is very electronic, but wonderfully crafted, very well layered, and well blended with various styles, including chugging electric guitars, sounds of the far east, pounding beats, and distorted vocals. There’s a lot on offer here. Male vocals lead the music, and I can’t help but feel that these come across as a very young sounding Marc Almond. Some of the music could be linked to an early James Ray’s Gangwar (especially on ‘Darken my door’). Each track is different, and while not initially easy to get into, after a couple of listens, you’ll be humming along with them in no time. ‘Waiting to disappear’, is a mystical haunting number, but not wishy washy – this track makes advantage of the solid construction of the layers of music to create a wash of sound, that rolls over you like waves on a beach. Superb indeed.

Reviewer: Keith Elcombe - Hard-wired.org.uk


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Eclectic. Now there's a word to stick to Invisible Asps and their deliriously strange but understated "Songs from the Pandemic." Heavy on the ethno elements, the music of Invisible Asps is a place where so many bits and pieces coalesce that it's surprising that the end result is so organic and seamless. The listener will find himself running the gamut from soft but dark beat and synth driven music calling to mind the early work of Trent Reznor to experimental acid jazz to crunching industrial guitars (but not really of the metal variety). A wide span of styles, wrapped around an industrial center, fuse in subtle ways to create an intelligent and challenging listen for the music fan with ... with eclectic tastes.

Reviewer: Kristofer Upjohn - Chain DLK