Katatonia - 'Dead Air'

2020 has been tough on all of us. Imagine recording what may well be your masterpiece, only to have all your usual channels to market and publicise it pulled from under you. That is what melancholic Swedes Katatonia found when they unleashed the astonishing “City Burials” into the world (spoilers). Like the world and their wife, they did a live cast performance and “Dead Air” captures it. I think this is the first live album culled from a live stream and it suffers from the same issue that befalls online concert, namely the lack of an audience. The silence at the end of songs is deafening and much as I love Katatonia (SPOILERS) I was left with very much a feeling of ‘what was the point of that?’