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Kafarnaüm
[Alfa Matrix]
The fourth album of the Belgian duo made of Benoît Blanchard and Sébastien Dolimont, our colleagues from the Side-Line fanzine, "Kafarnaüm" is probably their more coherent album (despite its title...) and the more mature to this day. It takes times to do something good and the last opus of the band, "Sons Palliatifs", was released in 2001. This new album is like an identity quest, probably in order to create a kind of speedy and cold trance-indus version of an European Delerium. Except for some instrumental tracks, somewhere between experimental indus and drum'n'bass (like the dispensable Chaos-Society, Chaos-Underworld, etc.), all the tracks of "Kafarnaüm" are paradoxically homogeneous, excelling in the very fast and domineering feminine trance-indus with future-pop tones, not very common samples and researched rhythmics. We particularly liked the 242-sounding Hurting You Is Good for Me (between "Front by Front" and "Off"). We also liked the samples in French like "Pour moi, c'est l'enfer" ("This is like Hell to me") on a VNV Nation background, with Within the Endless World. You'll be delighted by the bewitching Psychosomatic Complaints, with its aerial and pugnacious female vocal. And finally, we highly recommend the already cult cover of Niagara Pendant que les chants brûlent, a kind of Alice in Front Line Assembly land: that could introduce the indus-electro at the Eurovision Song Contest! Well done gentlemen.
Stéphane Colombet |
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