VAST - Bang Band Sixxx - Relay - review
VAST - Bang Band Sixxx - Relay - review
Tracklist
01. I Know How To Love02. Lift Me Up
03. Loneliness Is Fine
04. Slow
05. It's Been So Long
06. Straight Into End
A review by
jupitreas March 03, 2009
"Bang Band Sixxx - Relay" is a thoroughly enjoyable and consistent little EP filled with somewhat calm and classy industrial rock based around a concept taken from a novel under the same name. So, OK, the concept is pretentious to say the least, since it revolves around a futuristic world where everything is available for free and as a consequence people no longer feel love. Thankfully, Crosby and his band generally treat this concept without overt pathos and panache, with the EP being more akin to a short vignette about a single relationship in a world filled with technology and not an overwrought operatic disaster of epic proportions. The lyrics are clever too, with the best song here also having the most thought provoking lines: "Feels like emptiness when I go out at night/Feels like loneliness and loneliness is fine/Feels like emptiness but this emptiness is mine". The musical direction of the EP is similarly restrained, with all songs offering midtempo electronic rock music with the consistent video-game quality that pervades through the sound contrasting with Crosby's excellent moody vocals, creating a strange concoction of bubblegum and darkness. The album is also produced impeccably with pristine clarity and all of this adds to the feeling that this is a very highly stylized piece of work.
"Bang Band Sixxx - Relay" is an EP that through its brevity achieves a very satisfying consistency and focus. I cannot imagine that the story here would work as a full concept album and it is very wise to keep it as short and succinct as it is.
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