IAMX - Spit It Out

2008-09-07 / happyjunkie / Reads: 8480

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...

Suicide Commando - X.20

2008-08-30 / Älvalek / Reads: 8875

Four-disc release which is a sum-up of twenty years of artistic work of Johan van Roy. No one who values music from around dark electro should be disappointed with it. Except of 3 CDs with music the release includes a DVD with video clips and fragments of concerts. The...

Modern Cubism - Les plaintes d'un Icare

2008-08-24 / apeiron / Reads: 5989

This year’s springtime is full of high expectations! For more albums. And this particular album is a long-expected one, too. It is one of these vernal releases, to which I have the pleasure (or even the honour) to give the highest mark. Moreover, it was the first 2008 production to...

V/A - Castle Party 2007

2008-08-04 / SVN / Reads: 6992

One afternoon I finally got to hear a compilation of his year's Castle Party which held such bands as Diary of Dreams, Diorama or Suicide Commando. My first impression of the compilation was that most of the tracks on the CD did not match at all. My intuition, however, made...

No Name Desire - Wastelands

2008-07-17 / Vort / Reads: 7629

No name Desire is a group of three nice Czech guys with whom we had a pleasure of drinking two years ago at castle Party Festival, Bolkow. The album which I am writing about was released in 2004 and is already covered with dust. It just happened that it waited...

The Birthday Massacre - Looking Glass

2008-06-29 / Kirke / Reads: 9280

Finally I got into my greedy hands long time waiting EP The Birthday Massacre group. On the all beginning we have title song which is strong energetic dose and perfect summer hit. Great fusion on sweetness and strong sound – it’s characteristic and unchanging for that group and I hope it...