Cobalt 60: Elemental
- Bye Bye
- Sad
- T.O.M.A.M.
- Before
- You Are
- The Worried Well
- If I Was
- La Mort
- In the Valley
- Born Again
- Little Planet
- Poor Poor Pam
This is the new project from Jean Luc DeMeyer of Front 242 which brings a
little harder edge to the music than his work in the Cyber-Tec project. I
wasn't expecting to hear a continuation of the Front 242 sound on this project,
but while listening to the first half of this album I felt that there was some
missing ingredient to it. This just didn't have the complexity that I was
hoping for; some of the tracks are in a speedy techno vein and become
monotonous after a time. However, the second half picks up with a fuller sound
and more complex patterns. DeMeyer and his partner, Dominique Lallement,
interject quite a few guitar riffs in many songs which give them a Cubanate
flavor (possibly a side effect of working with Marc Heal of Cubanate on the
Cyber-Tec project). There is a nice contrast overall between soulful,
emotional songs and hard, aggressive dance floor tracks. While I've never
considered J.L. DeMeyer's lyrics excessively deep, they seem very simple on
this album (such as the tracks Sad' or The Worried Well'), like they were
added on as an afterthought and not an integral part of the music.
(Kevin Congdon)
Cobalt 60 are:
Jean-Luc DeMeyer - vocals
Dominique Lallement - machines
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