Covenant Resolved
And so this guided tour of Covenant’s back catalogue ends, at least for now. I’ll listen out for new material with significant interest, if not the excitement of times past. I cannot deny that their sound has developed, but in recent years, it’s just started to edge away from the things that drew me to them in the first place. It’s notable that whilst many people in the scene are critical of them, increasingly so in the last decade, it’s also hard to find a bad review of their recent albums on the established scene review sites, proof that they’ve retained both the technical standards on their recordings and a significant fanbase.
Covenant Ranked
Unlike previous ‘Listeners Guides’, I’ve found that Covenant’s evolution cannot be easily separated into different categories and hence I’ve just featured one long list of my personal favourites, plus a few explanatory notes as to why certain songs featured where they did.
Terminates Here Personal Choice
- Figurehead (either version, but listen to Plain version more)
- Like Tears In Rain (will settle for Der Leiermann)
- Call The Ships To Port
- Speed (Club Version only)
- Invisible and Silent
- Beat The Noise (highest ranking from last decade)
- Theremin
- Tour De Force
- We Stand Alone
- Stalker (either album or Club version)
- Ritual Noise (any ‘in house’ version)
- One World One Sky
- 20Hz
- Void
- Slowmotion
- The Men
- Bullet
- Monochrome
- Ignorance & Bliss
- Go Film (album version for listening, Hard version for DJing)
- Last Dance
- Dies Irae
- Dead Stars (would be higher if not for serious overplaying)
- Final Man
- Replicant
- The World Is Growing Loud
- Happy Man
- Sound Mirrors
- Lightbringer
- Helicopter
- I Close My Eyes
- Judge of My Domain
- Tension
- Get On
- Wall Of Sound
- Feedback
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
- Prime Movers
- Pulse
- Edge Of Dawn
That’s the end….return to Articles for more long reads.
