Will appear in the next Electroid Webzine
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The Fair Sex - Thin Walls Part II
This compilation is a gothic-electronic-industrial masterpiece. Skimming a secondary, but not in quality, best of from the band’s 20 year career. Synths pulse and stabs, drums pound, guitars scream, this is where industrial begins, and could end. “Drop Of Blood” is a darkwave classic, as are many here, German label Endless knows what they’re doing by producing and putting bands like this out. Almost 20 years later, The House Of Unkinds album remains a standard others are judged by. If your Dj at the club doesn’t have this, they don’t have one of the master race. And that surely is no pun! Contact: Endless Records, Krimmelsbach 7, 57319 Bad Berleburg / Germany, Tel.: 0049 (0)2751-444124, Fax: 0049 (0)2751-444125, E-mail: shop@endless-records.de, Web: www.shop.endless-records.de
9.8.05
3.8.05
This review will appear in the next edition of the Underground Sound
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Autumdivers - Self Titled
Golden, shimmering psychedelia, after the album gets going a couple in. First song "turnaround” is too much a stab at alternapop for much use beyond that, though admittingly the album has a great feedback intro, but it fails to fully engage before “Amend” truly begins a lively, well written and executed set of guitar orientated alterna on the second cut. Once this band gets into the groove, they are smooth as a vette A few times you have to overlook stabs at trying things that just don’t quite work, it’ll be a few minutes and the band will be back again. Even in cruise mode Autumdivers remain fine, and you have to give any band that experiments, a bit of credit. Gregory Paul emerges into sainthood with his glittering guitar and soaring vocal melodies (see, “Last”, it’s classic). On “Disapperaing Act”, yeah it has that Edge sound, but a this time in rock n roll so do thousands of bands, it doesn’t detract too severely from the fact it still is a great song. One the albums best, sorry but I can’t read the writing in good light, is cut 11. It’s straight up with nice flowing favors, like a country ride on a sunny day. Sometimes man, that’s more than ok. Contact: Autumdivers, http://www.autumdivers.com, 650-649-23-4 steve@onlinerock.com
http://undergroundrecords.org/sound/
Autumdivers - Self Titled
Golden, shimmering psychedelia, after the album gets going a couple in. First song "turnaround” is too much a stab at alternapop for much use beyond that, though admittingly the album has a great feedback intro, but it fails to fully engage before “Amend” truly begins a lively, well written and executed set of guitar orientated alterna on the second cut. Once this band gets into the groove, they are smooth as a vette A few times you have to overlook stabs at trying things that just don’t quite work, it’ll be a few minutes and the band will be back again. Even in cruise mode Autumdivers remain fine, and you have to give any band that experiments, a bit of credit. Gregory Paul emerges into sainthood with his glittering guitar and soaring vocal melodies (see, “Last”, it’s classic). On “Disapperaing Act”, yeah it has that Edge sound, but a this time in rock n roll so do thousands of bands, it doesn’t detract too severely from the fact it still is a great song. One the albums best, sorry but I can’t read the writing in good light, is cut 11. It’s straight up with nice flowing favors, like a country ride on a sunny day. Sometimes man, that’s more than ok. Contact: Autumdivers, http://www.autumdivers.com, 650-649-23-4 steve@onlinerock.com
2.8.05
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