POP WILL EAT ITSELF

Album: "Dos Dedos Mis Amigos" (1994)
Label: Nothing/Interscope Records
Style: Cyber-Core
Songs: 11

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Reviewed by: Darklight

This is a decent album by Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI). The songs "Ich Bin Ein Auslander", "Kick To Kill", "Underbelly", "Fatman", "Everything's Cool", and "R.S.V.P." are the best songs to be found here. They are energetic with great uses of electronics, synths, guitars, and distorted vocals. They are very catchy with hip-hop rhythms and beats. If all of the songs on the album were as good as these six, this album would have really kicked ass. However, PWEI wouldn't be content with just delivering all catchy and aggressive Cyber-Core style songs on their album. They had to get experimental and include slow funky garbage such as "Familus Horribilus", "Home", and "Babylon". The songs "Cape Connection" and "Menofearthereaper" are decent, but are a bit slow paced and are fairly boring. PWEI needs to realize that their true talent lies in their angry and aggressive guitar thrashing styles. The six songs that I mentioned that I like are industrial songs. They're not synth pop like PWEI's previous material. It's time for PWEI to become a full fledged industrial band, and leave the funky humor based synth pop crap behind.