After a long silence of 4 years, the French cult-label Cynfeirdd is finally back – and with what a release!!! The second regular album by Omne Datum Optimum is surely one of THE highlights of the year, 7 years after the amazing first album 'MISSA XXI'! A long of water has passed unter the bridges since, and Gautinis Th+21 also changed his mass wine a bit. While his universe of sound was previously tainted with religious and middle age esoterica, 'Les Moissons Ecarlates' stands for more "classical music" oriented sound – and this in the very good sense of the word – both in the instrumentation and the type of vocals used on this amazing album. The calligraphed and illuminated aesthetics of the beginnings left place to a clinical white one - stained by flesh and blood illustrating perfectly the theme of this 'Animal rights requiem'. Whereas this contrast between image and music could seem surprising, even disturbing, when listening to the opus everything gets in place, and one knows these harvests are not unharmful! Presented as a mat varnished digipak with 16 pages booklet, limited to 489 copies! (Audioglobe)