Pokeweed: DeadCircuitCult
- Simple Sadness
- Chloraseptic
- Terminal Reflection
- The Subtle
- You Are My Sins
- I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Substance
- Shooting Blanks
- Embrace the Hate Chain
- I Am The Reason There Will Be No More
Pokeweed seems to have learned a thing or two since the release of their first
demo. They don't seem to be as dependent on their guitars and acoustic drums as
in the past and the electronics actually seem to accentuate the music instead of
arm wrestling the fuzz of the guitars for dominance of the music. The vocals
still leave a little bit to be desired. They are so electronically altered that
they barely sound human, let alone anything that might pass for natural. They
are extremely flat and use a great deal of high end treble which dulls the
overall sections of the tracks in which they are heavily used. The few tracks
which use unmodified vocals actually come off ad crisp and clean, almost devoid
of feedback and analog alteration. These are perhaps the best tracks on the
album because for the first time all of the elements of the music are allowed
to breathe freely and cooperate with each other to create a finite orchestration
of sound. Just because you can make you music sound low-tech doesn't always
mean it will sound better that way and this album is a key example of that
fact.
Pokeweed are:
Atwell - vox, lyrics, creation
Brad - synths, samples, programming
Wes - bass
Dan - guitar
Contact:
Krazed Sex Kitten Mgmt
c/o Michael S. Free
205 Jefferson Ave Apt 3
York, PA 17403
(717) 845-7480
E-mail: bthompl@umbc.edu
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