IAMX - Spit It Out

2008-09-07 / happyjunkie / Reads: 7765

Single is single: short but is it pithy? Well, not this time. Spit it out is my least favorite on “The Alternative”. Single mix version is good but the remixes are worse. Kowalski’s interpretation of the track in monotonous and if it wasn’t for the vocal, which author pitied and...

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

2008-09-12 / apeiron / Reads: 3198

 If there had been organized a contest for the hardest working man, definitely the 2007 year`s winner would has been Steven Wilson. The multiinstrumentalist eminently didn`t loaf in that past year 2007. He filled a year with cds and concerts, where he`s the main power. Fans were very happy. Fanatics...

L'Ame Immortelle - Namenlos

2008-09-16 / -Mix- / Reads: 5328

The band surprised me. Firstly, with the speed; it seems to me that it was just yesterday when they released the compilation “10 Jahre” and today I have “Namenlos” in my hands and ears. Secondly, the musicians surprised me with what they always should; that is with recording a very...

Aurasvera - Aureola #1

2008-09-18 / apeiron / Reads: 4120

Since Riverside’s debut, there has been no such excellent album ever recorded in Poland yet! The fact that none of the major labels has offered itself to release this music confirms it, somehow. Is that so because the lyrics seem too ambitious? Or because these electronic tones generate too many...

Necrophorus - Imprints

2008-09-24 / sanguineus / Reads: 4089

The worst that can happen to us is the impossibility to prove what we see. What if everything that surrounds me is a delusion? An illusion made by a sick mind that couldn’t take it any longer and started to simplify everything it sees? And what if it was created...

Alice in Videoland - She's A Machine

2008-10-15 / Älvalek / Reads: 4590

"She's a machine" is a third album in the Carter of the Swedish band. Similarly to previous achievements the group gives listeners modern synth on a high level. Neither the tracks have a chance to become a club hit nor suit a romantic evening but every one of them...