Electric Grunge and Depeche Mode

I was thinking in the car a long time how to describe a band that processes the sound of broken 80s synths, the dirty Geschrammsel of 90s grunge and the booming, overdriven and glowing beats the 2000 in a storm of flashing auditory ideas and visions , I do not have a really workable explanation until now.

Most reminds me "The Glitch Mob" with this album to the late works of Depeche Mode, but coiffed and neat deposited with brilliant rhythms. Every song, as with Gahan and Co., a perfect blend of excitement, fantasy and even lethargy. Sometimes aggressive, then forgiving, but never harmonious.

It's like a journey through time in which you do not know in which era it has landed. From the back scratching completely ausgeleiherten boxes, front zerpumpen the drums every predictability. A bit of Jean Michel Jarre here a little Vangelis and power plant there, then even a small breeze Daft Punk, Underworld and Oakenfold and even relatively large amount of Martin Gore.

The mixture is creative, as I have for a long time no longer perceived. Here are not only musicians, but also sound engineers at work. Listening is pleasing, but demanding. Not for everyone's ears.

The hymn-like fragments burst in the second, where they begin to be catchy. This is ideal for the power structure, but prevents one remembers full songs. Remain items and sequences, almost like in real life. In addition, the plant is to be regarded in terms of a Oxygènes as a whole, where each track represents more of a chapter.

Nevertheless, I have to deduct a star, because me - quite banal - insufficient human happens to little significance to introspective. Superbly fit distorted by Autotunes "Between Two Points" Therefore, in addition to the opener "Animus Vox" the highlight of the disc is. Just by the melancholic-pitched vocals of guest singer "Swan" gets the dark, dripping with testosterone sound a special kick towards mainstream, but this is not a negative values.

I like to wait for more!