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40%
Want it or not, while taking the CD to our hands, we imagine its content. In spite of our will we have the image of the music hidden under the cover. I'm not going to enforce the consequence, the agreement of the image, the cover, with the sounds of particular tracks on anyone. I understand that it's often because of the perverseness the authors of the given project wish to contradict themselves. It's often the artistic activity, stimulating the recipient to a greater or lesser intellectual effort. It's like a puzzle: we're only interested in what we discover under the cover. I won't deny it: I admire such deceptive attempts. It's obvious, though, that such action entails some amount of risk...
One can speak of success if the recipient is positively surprised. Then the saying "don't judge the book by its cover" fits perfectly. I like loosing this risky game... I'm a visual and I like analysing what's the way the image corresponds with the rest. Let's not forget that the music creates images. I understand that it to does so, this is the way the instrumental music should be like above all. Definitely it should be experimental. The cover should be a final of the artist's assumptions. Obviously, nobody who makes such kind of music has to agree with me. However, the fact is that if the artist doesn't follow the rule s/he is usually misunderstood and criticized for the lack of consequence. The album is the proof of that theory. The question of the disappointed listener " what is it actually?" becomes the right reaction. Look at the cover. It's totally perverse: the name, both of the band and the album, is just a supplement of the cover, and only the cover. After I'd listened to those four tracks for eight times I checked three times: whether I'd been wrong about the pictures? Their connection to the tracks seems vague, at least for me. And that's it. As for that: complete failure. Especially that I cannot understand the artist's way of thinking. Undoubtedly it's a cheap way of attracting attention of any person that will have the contact with the album. Typical least resistance. Cheap trick. What is Izotop666's way to attract the potential recipient? Nudity! And male equipment of unknown origin! Yes! And what next? Nothing! The crowds attracted will probably go sooner or later, because the music is addressed to a different recipient than the cover. Only the title track, in its last seconds, suggests by those unspecified groans of a chick what is happening in the picture.
It does so quite discretely if we take the pics into consideration. The content itself isn't the worst material for contemplation. What does it have to do with the "parochial perverseness"? Well there is a chance for contemplation during the track "Cold Faithless Embrance", which is an interesting combination of bells and dark exhalation. What's more its ambient atmosphere is intriguing as well. It's a pity that most of the interesting sounds doesn't have the chance to exists for long. They die only slightly developed making the whole without the leitmotiv. It's hard for me to save the music in memory: it doesn't differ from any other project of that type. More courage! But not "on cover" !
Rating: 40% [for the potential]
P.S how to understand the darkfakk in remix? Where is this fakk?
Tracklist:
1.Electrical Sexual Radiation
2. Cold Faithless Embrance
3. Manifest of Procreation
4. Shadowiked Darknespirit (darkfakk remix)
