Halo Effect - New Romantic Industry
A year after a succesful debut with "New Romantic Industry", an Italian quartet - Halo Effect reminds us of itself, but now the CD is legally available for download.
The beginnig of "30041946" is really surprising as we can hear Hitler's vague greeting, probably originally recorded with some crackling. Suddenly the tactics changes and I can hear clearly as an announcer in a radio declares that Hitler is dead.
Next, I'm hit by sounds, which I immediately associate with some early works of Depeche Mode - "People Are People", "Stripped" or "Photographic". A bit of De/Vision can be also heard here, and as a result the album is enriched with both something familiar and 'old' as well as something new and fresh. Each track adds some new elements. The album mixes alternative and electronic sounds, with tender elements of industrial and gothic music. The last but one track, just like the first one, is a sequence of numbers - "11092001", but it is less shocking than the first one - definitely there are more quiet and soothing melodies. "New Romantic Industry" ends with a cover of an electro star - Nitzer Ebb, "Join in the Chant".
Tracklist:
01. 30041946
02. Your Hopes to Die
03. Things Fall Apart
04. Spoilt
05. Running to You
06. One Million Lights
07. Fragile
08. Harder and Faster
09. Nobody
10. Before the Rain
11. So Sweetly
12. Waiting
13. 11092001
14. Join in the Chant (Nitzer Ebb Cover)
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The beginnig of "30041946" is really surprising as we can hear Hitler's vague greeting, probably originally recorded with some crackling. Suddenly the tactics changes and I can hear clearly as an announcer in a radio declares that Hitler is dead.
Next, I'm hit by sounds, which I immediately associate with some early works of Depeche Mode - "People Are People", "Stripped" or "Photographic". A bit of De/Vision can be also heard here, and as a result the album is enriched with both something familiar and 'old' as well as something new and fresh. Each track adds some new elements. The album mixes alternative and electronic sounds, with tender elements of industrial and gothic music. The last but one track, just like the first one, is a sequence of numbers - "11092001", but it is less shocking than the first one - definitely there are more quiet and soothing melodies. "New Romantic Industry" ends with a cover of an electro star - Nitzer Ebb, "Join in the Chant".
Tracklist:
01. 30041946
02. Your Hopes to Die
03. Things Fall Apart
04. Spoilt
05. Running to You
06. One Million Lights
07. Fragile
08. Harder and Faster
09. Nobody
10. Before the Rain
11. So Sweetly
12. Waiting
13. 11092001
14. Join in the Chant (Nitzer Ebb Cover)
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- Interview with Halo Effect - 2012-12-08 (Interviews)
