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Reviewed
by: Darklight
This
band sounds like a darker more aggressive version of My Life With The
Thrill Kill Kult. The vocals are delivered by both a male and female.
However, the male vocals are dominant. The vocals are distorted and
sing in a slight whisper. They come off having a muffled sound to them.
They do blend with the static electronic noises, guitar, bass and drums.
While this is a rock band for the most part, there are a lot of electronics
used. They are layered as sound effects while guitars and drums do take
center stage. Everything here has a dark feel to it, but comes off funky
with a slight sci-fi edge to it as well. Most of the songs are rather
fast paced while there are slower moments to be found too. My main complaint
with this album is that there just isn't a lot of variety here. All
of the songs basically sound the same. Sure they have slight differences,
but not enough to make any of them stand out on their own. If there
were not breaks between the tracks, I would think that this album was
just one long playing song. The songs are slightly experimental for
the fact that they're not your typical verse/chorus/verse structures.
They wouldn't really work on commercial radio due to them being quite
frantic, chaotic and all over the place. While this gives the band a
slightly unique edge, it also prevents any of the songs from really
pulling you in or holding your attention for very long. There are some
more heavy and aggressive moments here where the sound comes off as
metal music, but it still has an experimental feel to it. I think I
would like the band more if they put more structure in their songs and
gave the vocals more variety in their delivery. This album will appeal
to people who like bands such as The Electric Hellfire Club, Ministry
and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. But any other audience probably
won't get much from it. This is for the guitar crossover industrial
crowd only.
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