yet another music update
So, what do we have here, this time?
- The Last Sucker, Ministry: good indus stuff, nice cover, I like Life is Good, but I didn’t know they could do guitar solos;
- Art Metal, Jonas Hellborg: hum, not sure about this, I sometimes like Mattias Eklundh on guitar, but his sound is really specific. Probably a bit of deception after the work with Buckethead;
- Power of the Damager, Prong: Better live, but good metal stuff anyway;
- Party Animals, Turbonegro: really cool rock songs with many influences which they don’t hide much;
- Les Danaïdes: well, not much to say, I wanted to expand my collection in the opera genre;
- Angst, KMFDM: basic and plain old indus stuff from our KMFDM friends;
- Selected Ambient Works, Aphex Twin: no coments, maybe a bit too soft… well, ambient…;
- The Slip, Nine Inch Nails: damn good.
I don’t understand what, market-wise, Trent Reznor is trying to achieve. Selling at various prices and with different packagings a fully instrumental album and giving for free a quite good “classic” album.
Yes, quite good. I mean, I still loathe the whole clean-sounding-piano thing that is somehow part of the nin sound since Still. This is a reason why I don’t like the last part of Discipline or the beginning of Lights in the Sky. But there are a few good things nonetheless. My favorite would be Demon Seed, there’s some kind of an old vibe in this one. All the songs are a bit too much of the bass lead kind, but instrumentals are back, mixed with other songs. 999,999 reminds me of Pinion, in fact, while The Four of Us are Dying is closer to Help me I’m in Hell.
And then again, there’s the all “I don’t feel… a million miles away”…