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Reviewed
by: Darklight
This
CD begins strong with the smashing track “Angel (in the psychiatrist’s
chair)” which has clubfloor filler written all over it including
all of the ingredients that make for a strong dance track. This is a
good opening song as it represents what is delivered throughout this
disc. Dark and energetic angry and aggressive electro-industrial with
creative effects and sound layering mixed with hard driving beats and
emotional distorted male vocals. Angelic female vocals come in at times
as well.
What Inertia does well on this release is combine a lot of interesting
electronic sounds that go off in every direction you can think of while
bass beats remain constant to keep the songs moving.
The vocals have different effects on them depending on the song. Basically,
there’s a lot of variety on this album. But overall it sticks to a hard
and heavy electro-industrial sound.
There are four experimental dark ambient instrumentals included here
that are good, but seem a little out of place with the other more aggressive
tracks. Also, I feel four instrumentals is a bit much for this type
of act. But in the end, everything does work together rather well with
nothing lackluster in the mix.
I feel that there is still room for the band to improve in the future
by incorporating even more diverse music and greater uses of their female
vocalist. But for now this is a very solid album that fans of aggressive
electro-industrial shouldn’t miss.
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Reviewed
by: Darklight
This
is one angry and aggressive band. They make enegry packed dark dance
floor ready electro industrial music. The electronics go haywire, the
drum beats blast like bullets, guitars attack and the singing is pure
distorted hate. However, this is not a coldwave band. The guitars used
here are very slight and are only placed into the music once in a great
while. The rhythms and beats are pure electro and would make anyone
want to get up and move. The songs all play at about the same fast and
furious pace, but do sound a lot different from each other. However,
the music kind of lacks dramatic synth melodies. It's almost completely
created with layering of electronics and drum programming. This band
doesn't really do anything new, but what they do they do very well.
My only complaint here is that I would have liked more songs. One of
the tracks is just a sample piece. So actually this album only delivers
eight songs. But this is a minor complaint considering that everything
here is great. This is a must for fans of energetic electro industrial
music.
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