Kontaminant - Monument EP

Kontaminant is the Manchester based artist Davi Lovatt and with some lyrical help from Brutal Resonance's own Nick Quarm, the EP 'Monument EP' has now been released. This release show potential, but has a couple of heavy weak spots as well. Since I'm such a positive person (that's a lie), let's start with what Kontaminant actually does well.

There's a great sense of melodies within this Futurepop inspired act. The pounding beat is well suited for dance floors and the overall flow in the vocals keep you interested. Together with its strong melodies, it's bound to end up with a club hit potential in many of the tracks delivered, like "Monument" or "Deception", but it is in great need of some polish.

And with that, we have a nice transfer to the more negative aspects. There's a great need of mastering on this release, since it feels and sound very flat and demo like. While you get hints of good vocal potential during the verse of "Deception", it too falls flat on the refrain where I would wish for more authority and power to really deliver. Some of the vocal aspects are in need of some training from Davi and some of it is simply a mastering issue, since I'm quite sure the vocals was not recorded through a string phone.

There's potential to be found here, especially in "Monument" and "Deception". I would love to hear those tracks again in a future release, This goes for "Obsidian" as well, though the guitars seems terribly out of place, so a strictly electronical version of this track might put it in the right direction.

With some more polish and some mastering I'm sure things could turn out brightly for Kontaminant. Oct 05 2011