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| Agua de Annique |
 Line-up:Anneke van Giersbergen - vocals/piano Joris Dirks - guitars/vocals Jacques de Haard - bass Rob Snijders - drums After deciding to part ways with renowned Dutch rock band The Gathering in mid 2007, charismatic singer Anneke van Giersbergen formed the alternative rock/pop band Aqua de Annique to allow herself to venture out and voice her solo material and personal lyrics. "Anneke lets her penchant for alt pop shine with this new project, while maintaining the angelic, yet dark vocal melodies that made her a beacon of light in the European metal scene."
-- The Sentimentalist
  ¼ 2007:
Air"(...) The music here is not much different than what we have come to expect from The Gathering the last half decade or so, although surprisingly there are a few heavier songs on this CD than what we have come to expect from Anneke in quite a while. Witnesses rocks pretty damn hard, filled with plenty of relentless guitar riffs from Joris Dirks and pummeling drums courtesy of Rob Snijders, and the opener Beautiful One matches catchy hooks with shimmering arrangements and driving rhythms, easily one of the most commercially appealing rock songs on the CD. There's plenty of ballady pop material here that lets Anneke show off an almost Jewel-like folky quality, like on Yalin, Day After Yesterday, and the modern indie-rock flavored My Girl. The singers angelic crooning floats over lilting guitar chords on Take Care of Me, and soars alongside rock guitars and Dirks' backing vocals on Ice Water. However, it's not until You Are Nice! that the band really kicks things up again, as this one is a heavy rocker, with thick guitar riffs, stabbing synth blasts, and Anneke's snarling vocals. Unfortunately, that's the last rocker of the bunch, as the second half of the CD is filled with more laid back, melancholy numbers, the most interesting of which is the somewhat jazzy Sunken Soldiers and the Pink Floyd inspired Lost and Found, the latter featuring some great guitar leads from Dirks..."
-- Pete Pardo, seaoftranquility.org, 9/07
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