Review:

on 2011-02-20 CharlesMartel Said:

What utter garbage! There have been attempts before to launch a career on nothing, and some of them have actually produced results. Milli Vanilli was a prime example of something made out of nothing. Now, I am not saying that Absent Element are a fraud in the Milli Vanilli sense of the word, but fraud runs through this with a vengeance. What we have here is some failed pop wannabe who went through the cringeworthy Pop Idol process and came out with this. Another example of how the mass-produced give-the-masses-what-we-want attitude of the major record labels triumphs over originality and class. Simon Cowell and his ilk have made a virtue out getting fools to humiliate themselves, and have made a fortune out of marketing the marketing process. The result - Absent Element.

This stuff is aimed strictly at kids who know no better and who treat music as the soundtrack to a life hemmed in by the mundane and dream of escaping to the shallow, vacuous world of celebrity. It screams, give me your pocket money. It poses as rock, but it is so safe that no concerned parent need worry about anything so offensive as teenage rebellion, let alone bad language. It is therefore bland, anodyne and revoltingly smug. It smacks of the self-satisfied contentment of a nobody who just wants to be able to say I made a record and see if he can rake in some money doing it. The money will be made by the puppet masters behind this.

What was worse that the campaign by a bunch of pre-pubescent teenage street teamers to get this elevated to some sort of status it never deserved was as transparent and as fake as the music itself. No one with any self-respect should buy this. I downloaded and listened to it to see if it had any merit whatsoever - it did not.
Rating: 1/10