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85%Golden Apes - Satori2021-07-16 / khocico / Reads: 3983Satori in Zen Buddhism means awakening, enlightenment. The point when everything becomes clear gets into the right place in the puzzle and reaches completeness. The moment Golden Apes released such a single is significant, indeed. Even though it may not be directly related to the pandemic in the lyrics... |
85%Gary Numan - Intruder2021-07-01 / DamienG / Reads: 3520He has been capable of shifting aesthethics, like a conceptual chameleon, in drastic, broad movements, only to emerge on the other side – as a gentleman synth pioneer (The Pleasure Principle), survivor of the Earth undone (Warriors) or mad-hatter of a fractured psyche (Splinter) – a musician fully in control... |
80%Clicks - G.O.T.H.2021-05-12 / DamienG / Reads: 1939Kr-Lik waved goodbye to Controlled Collapse but his creative impulses shine through with Clicks – his more straightforwardly electro-oriented project that seems neither side nor intellectually subservient to the moody catalog of his now defunct industrial persona. The songwriting ability behind the music was always his most transparent accomplishment.... |
90%Kanga - You and I Will Never Die2021-04-28 / DamienG / Reads: 2997Sometimes, the evolution of the inherent properties of a project is so easy to notice and yet so unexpected – when considered alongside the expectations of their output – that it takes the listener a moment, a song or two, or even a duration of the album, to adjust. You... |
69%Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul2021-01-10 / DamienG / Reads: 2954This is not a nice looking cover – 'Mechanical Soul's artwork is reminiscent of their past aesthethic but somehow cheapend. The colour pallet is evocative of the game soundtrack 'Warmech' but the actual visual collage of elements harkens back to the 2000's. Front Line Assembly keeps repurposing itself with this... |
97%Die Form - Rayon X2019-05-27 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 3958"Everything comes from black and loses itself in white" - the motto of the newest Die Form album are the words of Louis Bertand Castel, eighteenth-century scholar and pioneer of visual music, who tried to connect sound waves with visible electromagnetic waves. Today, it seems that it is the French... |