Little Dove - debut EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Rock with a dark, morose tint
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
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The Little Dove duo is yet to produce a recording coming from a professional production environment, which fortunately did not prevent this unit of two from releasing live (!) recordings of their trade. When you go for the music "itself", the ensuing shape reminds me of the most wildest-, the wildestest - sorry about that - top form of Kidneythieves, - a fellow industrial cyberneticorganism act from Lost Angeles - consorted with an image of delirium-grade Nirvana. You can hear verbatim harmonic structures from certain Nirvana songs, but they are complimented by freshly fabricated and relevant ideas. The lead singer chick can sing like there is no tomorrow, while sticking to a guitar with both hands in the process. Her rhythm guitar playing is surprisingly ballsy and relevant, as is the rhythm section, that fuels and guarantees crude yet efficient beat-backrop environments for the crystal clear respective anatomies the songs convey. Read on to know more about this.

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Katrin the Thrill - Evil Eye Charm review

Year : 2012
Genre : Psychedelic, Dark Soft Rock, Soft Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : Greece
Official site : > - here - <

Despite a resilient, young body and the spiritual experience of 1 000 000 years - give or take - contained in it, Greece's Katrin the Thrill is an established presence of entertainment in her home country, while she and her former (?) associates were as close to making a record deal as it is humanly possible on a land Circe reigns at with a soul intact. Not surprisingly : Katrin the Thrill is a highly talented sonic/vocal consortium who radiates a darkened variant of Grace Slick + a tint of Sheryl Crow on top of musical themes and thought-fields that make early Nina Hagen and anytime-Peter Steele content individuals. The aforementioned lamentations are covering about the third of the disc. The major part of it has massive psychedelic leanings. Did you notice the infinite amount of invisible white rabbits on the cover art yet? No? Look harder! Never seen someone who has fully disappeared. Read on to know more about the much anticipated Evil Eye Charm LP.

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Marilyn Manson - Born Villain review

Year : 2012
Genre : Industrial Dark Rock
Label : Cooking Vinyl, Hell etc.
Origin : United States
Rating : 9.0 / 10

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The new Marilyn Manson album is a visceral cultivation of infectious industrial rock passages pummeling through you with a brisk, constant 4/4 coated into myriad tints of inventive darkness. There are at least two essential ingredients - among others, logically - that I managed to pick up on this release, both being of primordial significance of how and why this album works with so fluent effortlessness. First and foremost, The Marilyn Manson, thank God & Co., already knows perfectly well that it is not at all mandatory nor necessary to deliver sounds all over the real estate of silence like there is no tomorrow, so he handles the institute of the sonic gap with considerable skill and a valiantly spirited will. The other sum of clever things is the differing intensity-extremes of the disc. The sheer - quite literal - volume-arcs of the sonic mass Manson tends to make his way through a given composition with.

The songs seek and find relevant pleasure by fooling you on a constant basis, first delivering fragile, elegant and dainty textures, - not too much of overkills directed towards Manson's yo ding dong man ding dong ding dong yo narrative now, though a more tolerable variant of said punishment rhetorics IS present - and they often explode into highly efficient sonic intimidation-sessions that are openly out there to facilitate a radical effect on your awareness. Manson says he implemented sounds that only dogs can hear, but make a human being kind of nauseous. I believe him. The consorting success rate is pretty radical, thank Manson and God for that, as result of the deeply differing volumetric extremes and the precisely planned gap-strategies the artist is employing. In other words : the intense parts will bitchslap you on spot with galvazined gloves, and this always is something a snob has to be grateful for. Guys, let's talk about the music.

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