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Storm
[Accession Records]
Did we expect the Assemblage 23's new album with an infinite impatience or what? Almost two years of silence after "Defiance", the perfect record, the American Tom Shear, who has become an inevitable character of the future electro-pop scene, offers us his fourth opus in less than five years. "Storm", this title says it all, this album is strong like a storm, faster than the previous one, violent and beautiful at the same time. We always appreciate the conquering and so personal voice of Tom as well as his catchy and dancing melodies. We only regret a kind of uniformity of the rhythms, but we're quickly comforted by the always magnificent and obsessing verses/choruses. If the slowest and most innovating tracks can't be found on this album (except for the grandiose Complacent and the worrisome 30KFT) but on the EP "Let the Wind Erase Me" which preceeded it, with the tracks Darker and Tragic Figure, several tracks are not only potential hits, but they'll also be considered as the best electro tracks of the year (Human, Skin, You Haven't Earned it and the magnificent Regret). With such an efficient recipe, we wonder why Assemblage 23 would renew its style. Don't change anything to your music Tom, we like it as it is! And as it's better when it lasts, let's mention than "Storm" will be immediately followed by a new EP "Ground", which will contain two novelties. Only one word: thanks!
Stéphane Colombet |
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