MARCO'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2012 - #18 (Part 6 of 23)
What happens if you take three parts of Skinny Puppy, one part of Mind.In.A.Box, one part of Edge of Dawn (does anybody remember them? You should!), shake it, and serve it? You get DEAD WHEN I FOUND HER, the new American sensation that we find today at #18 in our list, with their latest release 'Rag Doll Blues'.
After a debut that really owed a lot to that seminal Canadian industrial sound, Michael Holloway came back with his trademark syncopated beats tinted this time with a poppier strain, and you can never go wrong in my book with a healthy does of pop vibe.
Most of the (well deserved) good reviews for this album concentrated on the sound design and all that technical stuff, and while it's all good and cool that we have producers out there who are not afraid anymore to deviate from the dancefloor blueprint, I think the real strength of this album lies in the fact the songs get stuck in your head and won't leave. You keep going back to that repeat button as soon as the track - any track, really - ends.
The journey is augmented by clever use of sampling, a fine but almost lost art in Industrial-land, and an art that Holloway seem to have learned by his direct inspiration, Coil (as he states in interviews).
It also seems that this album has been a very good seller: it is really a refreshing news, one of the few glimpses of hope, given the generally dire situation of the whole Industrial genre.
Suggested listening: "Rain Machine", "Lesser Light", "Stainle".
Dec 10 2012
After a debut that really owed a lot to that seminal Canadian industrial sound, Michael Holloway came back with his trademark syncopated beats tinted this time with a poppier strain, and you can never go wrong in my book with a healthy does of pop vibe.
Most of the (well deserved) good reviews for this album concentrated on the sound design and all that technical stuff, and while it's all good and cool that we have producers out there who are not afraid anymore to deviate from the dancefloor blueprint, I think the real strength of this album lies in the fact the songs get stuck in your head and won't leave. You keep going back to that repeat button as soon as the track - any track, really - ends.
The journey is augmented by clever use of sampling, a fine but almost lost art in Industrial-land, and an art that Holloway seem to have learned by his direct inspiration, Coil (as he states in interviews).
It also seems that this album has been a very good seller: it is really a refreshing news, one of the few glimpses of hope, given the generally dire situation of the whole Industrial genre.
Suggested listening: "Rain Machine", "Lesser Light", "Stainle".
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