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Intelligence And Sacrifice
[DHR]
After Carl Crack's death last year, Atari Teenage Riot's aficionados rightfully feared for the future of the little DHR gang. Alec Empire's newest release should put their minds at ease. For the price of a single album, this double CD pack presents the two alternate facets ŕ la Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde of this prolific and seething musician. The first CD, featuring Nic Endo ("sounds fx/noise layers"), reminds us of the ATR fiery with its raging guitars and vindictive slogans, i.e. pure energy leaving total devastation in its wake! As Alec Empire himself sums up, this first CD feels like "driving a very expensive car straight into a wall". The second album is more in keeping with Alec's conceptual solo experiments, based on voiceless and cyclical electronic explorations.
Like a mirror image of Alec Empire's wild and hybrid personality, "Intelligence and Sacrifice" is an unmarketable piece of work that will appeal to electronica, metal, punk and noise adepts alike.
Laure Cornaire |
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