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Album:
"Illuminate" |
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Reviewed by: Darklight
Kristy Venrick and Steve Laskarides are back with what I feel is their
best work yet. The songs here are extremely infectious with fast paced
futuristic sci-fi electronic programming, manic beats, orchestrated
melodies and Kristy's excellent singing.
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Album:
"Forward..." |
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Reviewed by: Darklight
This once darkwave band has decided to change their sound to more energetic
club floor EBM, and I couldn’t be happier with their decision. There
is still a dark edge offered here, but it’s blended with much more futuristic
sci-fi electronic programming and hard driving beats.
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Album:
"Where Broken Angels Lie" |
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Reviewed by: Darklight This is a dark, cold and haunting gothic band that blend ambient sounds, samples, orchestrated synth melodies, electronic sequencing and drum programming with beautiful female singing and rough distorted growling male snarling. There is a good mix of variety to be found on this album. Some tracks are more instrumental in style, while others are a bit faster paced and could work in clubs. I like this aspect, and it does give the band an edge. The music here is very well composed with a lot happening in it. It's quite emotional and chilling, but at the same time has good rhythms and beats to draw you in. My main complaint here is that the male vocals just aren't that good. They are extremely distorted and basically sound the same on every track. Instead of being sung with harmony, they are spitted out in more of an angry talking fashion. Kristy Venrick, the female singer, has an amazing voice. She sings beautiful with harmony. She mixes it up on different tracks and sings in a spoken word style, chants and carries a tune wonderfully. This is why I don't understand why she isn't used a lot more here. With her quality singing talents I would think that her voice would be the main focus delivered. But instead, most of the tracks have the standard male vocals. I like it when the female vocals are mixed with the male vocals as a combination, but this doesn't happen too often. Another thing that I don't like too much here is some of the more experimental tracks where everything goes off in different directions and have no structure to them. While this adds variety, these tracks just aren't that interesting. The band shows off its musical talents the most on the tracks "Drown" and "Summoning". These two tracks feature well composed structured tight and varied music with the incredible vocal delivery of Kristy Venrick. I have no idea why there aren't more songs like these here. After track ten, tracks 11, 12 and 13 are just empty space. Track 14 is ambient noise. Tracks 15, 16 and 17 are empty space. Track 18 is ambient noise. Tracks 19, 20 and 21 are more empty space. Track 22 is the last song on the album. What the point of the empty space is I do not know. Another disappointing factor here is that there are three remixes that don't sound too much different from the originals. The bottom line is that this band has obvious talent. However, they could be so much better if they stopped with the weird experimental filler and made more structured songs featuring Kristy Venrick's vocals. As for now this album has its moments, but all of the weird filler and too many remixes make it a lot less appealing in my opinion.
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