Review:

on 2010-08-31 gutterseed Said:

I know why this label is named "mute", because after one listen I hit the mute button. It so unoriginal it's toxic. It's a cookie cutter album bands like Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, London after midnight, a fast version of the cramps, and she wants revenge used to record. Same chords, same bassline,same drumbeat, same genre, boring; though somewhere in the middle they try to go industrial and try to sound like Nine Inchs Nails, and they must have seen The Good The Bad and the ugly, because "deadbeat" has that "We gonna hang you for treason boy" as the sherriff rides into town to bring law and order.
I know it's indie, and i know there's a lot that indie has to offer, unfortunately I wouldn't feed my dog this album. It's a collection of noise, meaning I could go into my room, play goth music and watch static on the TV. Apparently this band came up with the idea before I did.
Is this guy singing or is he on heroin and just talking lowly? Whoever rates this a 9/10 needs their head examined.
The noises are top knotch, but ripped off, literally. If you're into goth it might not be a bad album to own, but isn't music supposed to be original?
There is also nothing ambient about this album, and the lyrics are filled are whining cliche "i wanna tell you everything's ok."..."I wanna hear you, I wanna fear you". "I can't make you smile", and my favorite self loathing expression, which appears once on every goth album "I just bring you down"
This album is not only a waste of time, but by far outdated for being released in 2009. Shed the makeup, the trench coats, the doc martins, and the black nailpolish and move on.
This album is far from classic. It's all power chords, horrid drums and basslines. It also points to the obvious. The original album wasn't their stepping stone to this piece of "work", it lies where Joy Division's "closure" left off, unfortunately this band didn't go out the way Joy Division did.
Rating: 2/10

on 2010-08-30 Dustinss5 Said:

My newest favorite representative from the noise-rock genre..

I've had my hands on this album for about two weeks now and it's been played through quite a few times. The sound they make can't really be compared to anything else I've heard. Dark and grungy while still very upbeat, it seems the sound focuses more on the ambient-like guitar noises rather than the lyrics, which are top notch on their own. The earlier self titled album seems like a classic stepping stone to this work, with the overall sound being very similiar
Rating: 9/10