Throughout my short yet quite prolific hobby at reviewing promos, I’ve managed pretty well to avoid getting into situations when I am supposed to review an album that I really don’t want to listen to at all. I don’t think I’m very narrow-minded or anything, but yes, there are still such genres out there to which I wouldn’t like to use any of my little free time.
Amber Solstice’s debut Elixir of Passion is, however, a change to the paradigm - now behold this novelty! Here this four-piece Russian group plays some sort of synth pop that occasionally meets with heavier distorted guitars and even some real drums at times. But for the most part, Elixir of Love is techno beats, futuristic sounds and rather embarrassing vocal delivery, both male and female. All in all, listening to the album is reminiscent of the feeling of listening to a nineties’ B grade pop record and being unable to understand how it could have been done seriously back then.
”In Passion” and ”Elixir of Love” don’t show the metal elements much except in some distant rhythm guitars in the background, but on the third track ”The Dreams” the guitars and drums kick in properly, and based on a song like that, I could perhaps recommend the album to fans Pain from Sweden. If I had to choose, this certain track would probably the album’s highlight. After that, Elixir of Love returns to the awkward pop melodies and sounds, though perhaps ”Wherever You Are” could still be mentioned as an okay piece that focuses more on atmosphere. A couple of remixes are added to the album’s end, and no further comments to those except that they’re the kind of pieces you hear can hear on dance floors of your closest night club, so...
Add the even more embarrassing love themed lyrics (written in a cheap font with the bold and italic effects at the booklet) to the music, not to forget the odd cover in which two robot-like human figures (?) kiss each other that kind of speaks for itself, and in result you get an album that, well, at least I can not stand. The potential fanbase resides somewhere entirely else than in yours truly’s ears. But I doubt that many readers of the blog would be interested in this album, anyway, so at this point I think I can safely conclude this review and get back putting Vetala’s new Live Evil tape as well as Cornigr’s Relics of Inner War to my beloved tape deck. And to make it hundred percent clear: there’s no offense meant towards anyone in this review, but I wholeheartedly think it’s just in totally wrong hands.
Amber Solstice’s debut Elixir of Passion is, however, a change to the paradigm - now behold this novelty! Here this four-piece Russian group plays some sort of synth pop that occasionally meets with heavier distorted guitars and even some real drums at times. But for the most part, Elixir of Love is techno beats, futuristic sounds and rather embarrassing vocal delivery, both male and female. All in all, listening to the album is reminiscent of the feeling of listening to a nineties’ B grade pop record and being unable to understand how it could have been done seriously back then.
”In Passion” and ”Elixir of Love” don’t show the metal elements much except in some distant rhythm guitars in the background, but on the third track ”The Dreams” the guitars and drums kick in properly, and based on a song like that, I could perhaps recommend the album to fans Pain from Sweden. If I had to choose, this certain track would probably the album’s highlight. After that, Elixir of Love returns to the awkward pop melodies and sounds, though perhaps ”Wherever You Are” could still be mentioned as an okay piece that focuses more on atmosphere. A couple of remixes are added to the album’s end, and no further comments to those except that they’re the kind of pieces you hear can hear on dance floors of your closest night club, so...
Add the even more embarrassing love themed lyrics (written in a cheap font with the bold and italic effects at the booklet) to the music, not to forget the odd cover in which two robot-like human figures (?) kiss each other that kind of speaks for itself, and in result you get an album that, well, at least I can not stand. The potential fanbase resides somewhere entirely else than in yours truly’s ears. But I doubt that many readers of the blog would be interested in this album, anyway, so at this point I think I can safely conclude this review and get back putting Vetala’s new Live Evil tape as well as Cornigr’s Relics of Inner War to my beloved tape deck. And to make it hundred percent clear: there’s no offense meant towards anyone in this review, but I wholeheartedly think it’s just in totally wrong hands.
0.5 / 5
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