Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks review

Year : 2013
Genre : Synth Pop / Dark Synth Pop
Label : Columbia / The Null Corporation
Origin : United States
Rating : 8.5 / 10

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According to his own words, Nine Inch Nails fronter Trent Reznor has been less than honest about the actual state of affairs the NIN potentialities allegedly been subjected to since 2009, the very year marking the beginning of the hiatus the band embarked on until further notice. A wizard worth calling one does not show up again without a new trick or two up his sleeve, though - and a wizard WILL show up when the trick is ready to be showcased. At the first quarter of 2013, Trent Reznor stated that he was secretly working with his NIN collaborators on new material all the way back from the better part of 2012, - I'd imagine they wanted to make some music yet before the alleged Apocalypse had a chance to be postponed once again in a Universe that reigns in constant salvation and would have no trouble adapting to anything - and the time logically arrived to transmute this now-revealed and simultaneously massacred secret into a mental and emotional construct you, as a randomer fond of Nine Inch Nails can freely relate to : new album was on its way, and now it is here in its full splendor. This review primarily is positioned as a per track inspection, yet later I will share my personal sentiments on the overall experience. Read on to know more about the tracks.

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Brando Albers - Fading Away review

Year : 2013
Genre : Dark Synthpop with an Electro-Sludge tint
Label : Independent
Origin :Canada
Official site : >-here-<

Brando Albers is a massively synth-centered independent silence disruptor who notably sounds to share a quite similar spiritual disposition to that of the retro era Depeche Mode Collective, yet, the presence of that trademark gritty black leather charisma the Brit trio is notorious of is interchanged with a more restrained and deeply self-reflective demeanor that never assumes that you have some place to hurry to emotionally and/or (non)physically. If you absolutely HAVE to, then you are not really needed there, anyway. The particularly calm, contemplative and spacious spacing (I just lost a level, yes) of the music equates with the premiere strategy Brando Albers makes things easily and fluently decipherable with as far as the orientation process is concerned on his robust, and morose soundscapes. It all is a matter of your very own willingness to surrender to the ubiquitously and relentlessly contemplative musical mood, one which, on occasion, takes sufficient cunning and rampant liberty (naturally.) to reveal the shades of good old fashioned soul-defiler doom metal WITHOUT a single guitar being in the vicinity. Read on to know more about the music of Brando Albers.

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