Band:	Klimt 1918
Album:	Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation)
Style:	Shoegaze, Atmospheric rock
Release date:	June 20, 2008
A review by:	Jeff

01. The Breathtaking Days (Via Lactea)
02. Skygazer
03. Ghost Of A Tape Listener
04. The Graduate
05. Just An Interlude In Your Life
06. Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again
07. Suspense Music
08. Disco Awayness
09. Atget
10. All Summer Long
11. True Love Is The Oldest Fear

"Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation)" is the new release of Klimt 1918, the really atypical band from Italy. If you don't know them yet, you have to know that Klimt 1918 is a really original band and that's it's not so easy to classify them but if you need some informations about their music, let's say that they play a mix of Pop, Gothic and Progressive Metal, something a bit special for a basic Metalhead but if you like "soft" music I'm ready to bet some money that you'll like this really good album.

Even if Klimt 1918 is signed on a big Metal label, Prophecy Productions, it's hard to say that the band is a Metal band. Sure some of their riffs are a bit heavy but in general, their music if nearer of Pop than anything else. It doesn't mean that it's bad, at the opposite, if you like dark and melancholic music and little progressive touches "Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation)" is a must. The third album of the Italians sound Pop (a bit la Muse), "Doom" (a la new Katatonia) and even a bit Progressive (a la Porcupine Tree), though of course all in all it doesn't look so Metal but it's not really problematic because Klimt 1918 is above all a matter of ambiance and here the ambiances are simply amazing. Of course the melodies (especially on "Skygazer" or "Suspense Music") of the new album are excellent and the eleven songs all have choruses that you'll remember for a long time but what I particularly like here is that those songs are really deep. What I want to say here is that you'll find something behind the music, something that we call emotion. The music of Klimt 1918 is really poetic and the general melancholic ambiance of the record simply kick ass. I understand why the album has the sentence "Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation" in its name, a bit like with "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" of the Smashing Pumpkins this release has something really nostalgic in its music and finally this is really touching.

The last Klimt 1918 is really beautiful, of course you have to like Rock and Pop (with big Metal influences of course) to love this release but if you're looking for emotions and don't only want brutality, I'm sure that you'll enjoy the release. Well interpreted with a great recording and a superb cover which nicely represent the whole release, "Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation)" is a great confirmation that Klimt 1918 is a band which deserve its success. Honestly I really think that the band should be played on the radios and TVs, they're a lot better than the majority of the trendy British Pop bands that we can listen to nowadays.

Let's be a bit open-minded this time and let's enjoy the new Klimt 1918. Ok this is not really Metal but it's good melancholic music so if you like great melodies, poetic lyrics and dark ambiances, just have a look on this release and you shouldn't be disappointed. "Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation)" is not an album for every metalheads but it's highly recommended to all the people who loves the new wave of (dark) Rock bands. Great job, great release, "Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack For The Cassette Generation)" is a really good discovery for me.