Total Devotion: Where The Grasses Grow
- Memory
- Never
- Get Down Now
- Another Time
- Daydream
- Detriment
- Hole Inside of Me
- Lifeline
- Slide
- Paralyzed
- Move Away
- So Long
- Where The Grasses Grow
Total Devotion has been marketing its new album as Nine Inch Nail clones for
reasons that are beyond me. I'd be hard pressed to find a Trent Reznor
comparison anywhere on the album with the exception of a few angstful lyrics.
The album is definitely an extreme departure from the dancey synth-pop of the
past and ventures heavily into the electro guitar arena. The music is still
very light, poppy and Top-40ish in places. The majority of the lyrics are pop
fluff love songs with nothing even remotely approaching a club track without
some serious remixing. Rimas Campe seems to be pushing his limits with this new
album. The music is in such a different vein that his previous work that it is
very evident how hesitant he is to work within this medium. The album ends up
sounding very subduced but amazingly accessible for the popular audiences who
seem to be starving for crossover bands such as these. I'd expect this album
would be amazingly successful with the 'alternative' crowd but ignored by many
of the diehard electronic music buffs.
Total Devotion is: Rimas Campe
Contact:
Total Devotion
P.O. Box 284
Owings Mills, MD 21117-0284
E-mail: totaldevotion@juno.com
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