6/10 on the album art. Could be better, but without question could be worse.
Despite being tagged as psytrance this is more progressive than anything. Progressive doesn't always have to equal unenjoyable but this particular album is progressive through the lens of Brittish New Wave. Every track has a very 80s vibe but to a 4/4 trance beat, and I'm sure that will garner them some fans but I can't count myself among them.
The album starts out with a track appropriately titled 1987, and not too surprisingly that's exactly what it sounds like. Clocking in at 8:30 the tune is wall to wall awful 80s retro synths backed by a thumping bassline. I badly wanted to skip to the next track but, as I found out later, I wouldn't find any solace. The rest of the album is pretty much a carbon copy of the opening track. Awful, awful synths, tracks run too long and me sitting idly by hoping for the end.
My least favorite song I've heard this year.
I can say without a doubt I've no reason to ever come back to this album and I'm hoping beyond belief that I actually run across another Tycon album that I do remember liking.
They were definitely looking for mainstream club appeal with this one. The vocal tracks are especially horrendous. Zero Six After was their last great release, but you won't be hitting that one for a looooong time. Apparently they have a double album in the works now.
ReplyDeleteI think because I've always been a new wave 80s Lover, I don't mind this at all. It's like combining my nostalgia with my love for electronic music and putting it in syrupy pink fluffy package, haha! But you know me. ;)
ReplyDeleteThat's what is was. Zero Six After.
ReplyDeleteOk yeah I'll look forward to that one this time next year.