With their debut album Saline Grace present claustrophobicly profound songs about desperation and the blackest depths of misery, candle-lit rooms full of tragedies, forlorn sinners and deceptive roads which are surrounded by broken telegraph poles, low-hanging wires, sadness and peculiarly grown trees, leading into nowhere and failure. They also tells us about the human’s eternal yearning for deliverance and his hope for God’s doubtful mercy. On “Border Town Shades” an extraordinarily filigree guitar style has been woven into antiques such as piano, organ, banjo and marimba, building up together with a powerful bass, admonishing bells and stylishly played drums a remarkable mixture of Americana, psychedelic and folklore of old Eastern Europe which creates an oppressively sinister atmosphere. Within the centre of this soundscape stands ominously, full of urgency and often with amazing warmth the marvellously narrative voice of Ricardo Hoffmann, who, like creeping out of the human psyche’s repressed depths, knows to celebrate his fateful tales and philosophic poems.