Fracture: Killernet
- Initial Impact
- Programmed for Hell (A)
The Razor's Edge (B)
- Threat Assessment
- Downtown
- Terror Eyes
- A Vision Arrests
- Never Forgive
- Good Kill
- Comatose
- The Verdict
- Eleison
This duo from Canada, not be confused with the Boston band of the same name,
which impressed me with their first CD EP release 'Downtown', of which three of
those tracks show up on this full-length, return to provide more great
electronic programming, slightly distorted, but grabbing vocals and a slightly
heavier emphasis on the guitar on some of the tracks. While the band's
influences are not invisible, especially on the beginning on Never Forgive with
its Remission-era Skinny Puppy sound, the album is well-crafted enough that you
can not easily pin-point into one category. And though it does contain many
elements of the coldwave style, it incorporates a lot of different styles as
well, such as ambient textures, noise-type soundscapes, and techno rhythms, so
that it seems to go beyond any one classification . They go through quite a few
different styles and effects on the vocals throughout the album, but they do it
in an intelligent way by using a vocal effect for each song that helps in
adding to the mood they are trying to create from the slightly distorted,
aggressive style on 'Never Forgive', the heavily distorted, frenzied effects on
'Killernet' and the saddened computerized effect on 'Terror Eyes'. The lyrics
on this album are more personal than a lot of electro-industrial material being
released these days, even if they are quite simplistic at times. The only real
drawback with this CD is that once again we have a band that makes us skip
through a large number of tracks of silence, there are 77 total tracks, so we
can listen to a track that really doesn't add anything to the CD, this time the
phrase "you're welcome" is repeated a number of times over a strange noise
background. (Kevin Congdon)
Fracture are: Alexis Charalambous & Saul Sette
Contact:
Pendragon Records
P.O. Box 388
Yardley, PA 19067
E-mail: pendrag1@aol.com
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