North Haven ( CT ) - Etats-Unis
Administrateur des artistes : Infocalypse
Site web : http://sonofthemachine.blogspot.com
Date d'inscription : 21 février 2007
I liked your earlier album Rebis, but this is even better. Not only does it seem more musically advanced and mature, but it also touches on one of my personal interests (babylon / sumer).
I've been a fan since The Anger Manefest, and you guys keep on impressing. This just brings it further. Neo Noir is a good title for this album, which takes your existing stylistic hallmarks and brings in a union with the urban jazz-industrial stuff that is normally associated with cyberpunk and noir spinoffs in general.
This album also raises the complexity level and sophistication.
All in all, a full 9 for this album. Great stuff.
I thoroughly enjoyed this album, but a lot would be lost on anyone who hadn't read Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH (on which this was obviously based). I'm a sumerfan myself, and I thought this was actually pretty inspired, and really has the feel of the book. If you haven't read it, you probably won't understand most of the actual intellectual and thematic elements in this album, and the mood might seem off. In either case, it's good hard electronica -- noisy, upbeat, and active. Raises your pulse, stimulates that good old audio cortex a bit ^^;. It's a bit corny, but as in Snow Crash, it's all in good fun, and the corniness is an integral part of the package.
All in all, I have to say: Good Stuff
The whole album is excellent. It's not only one of the most original albums I've seen on Jamendo (and I've seen a lot), but also one of the most exquisitely well-executed of the lot.
The innovative and beautiful combination of old recordings of poetry and music with sonorous soundscape sensoriums create an atmosphere that permeates the mind of the listener to the point of immersion.
I may be one of the few to get this, but it seems (and I may be wrong -- but I sort of doubt it) that the whole album (roughly) is a conglomeration of references to (among other things) Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman. Fans of that series will recognize the atmosphere and some bits of dialogue and plot, as well as (most prominently) the name of the band and the helmet that is just barely visible on the cover of this album.
Mind you, this album is quite experimental, so those who aren't willing to devote some time to appriciate something that they've never heard anything remotely like before should exercise caution. At the very least, it's obviously well done, and at the most, its good art, but those who don't like arthouse stuffs should probably stay away and stick to more traditional venues.
Personally, I don't like the second track, though I recognize that it is explicitly engineered to evoke negative emotions. Many of the other tracks are not quite as emotionally jarring, but still feel distinctly disturbing and perhaps frightening. This mirrors the Sandman graphic novels.
All in all, great stuff. I'd like to hear more from this group.
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unknown1570 
