Artist: .com/kill
Title: .com/kill
Genre: Dark Noise
Release Date: 31st May 2013
Label: Accession Records
Album Review
.com/kill is described as “a second musical universe, a second home for the redirected and unfiltered words and sounds from the unconsciousness” rather than just a side project of Adrian Hates and Gaun:A from DIARY OF DREAMS (DOD). In its rawness and not only change of style it differs from the more refined DOD. Style-wise it’s more club-orientated than DOD and less cacophonic NIN, that is to say Industrial layering of personal complexity, with some nods to EBM too, yet it’s not as far from the orbit of the original DOD planet. That is inescapable if you put yourself into music – you can view your ego/self/soul from several angles yet it’s still going to be you. To escape your own self is a real headache, isn’t it? I’m not just gonna get angry that they’ve not divorced themselves from it entirely as it’s that distinguishable core that makes it certainly distinctive from other acts. Even when more brutal, there is an intrinsic feel of sensitivity that is own to DIARY OF DREAMS.
This Pandora box of an album opens with ‘Freaks Like Us’ and certainly fits the bill of its description: a horde of wild note storms assaulting the eardrums, it seems to challenge the listener, yet the freak in you will stand shoulder to shoulder with them. ‘one’ is like a labyrinthine dystopic world where you’ll feel like K. in The Trial, a mesmerising beat in a song that seems to be echoing and falling on itself. ‘das blendwerk’ is at once brutal yet dreamy. ‘monster divine’ is easily clambering up to be club-classic; its restrained anger unquestionably makes more effect to make blood boil and wanting release. ‘who:ah!’ comes a lot more danceable and – resounding in the memory – shake it off at your own peril – kinda song. ‘machines’ is a song you’ll easily associate most with DOD, yet it produces my least liked song here, maybe because to suit the theme the approach to it was nearly mechanically predictable and not so interesting.
‘still die gier’, even if you’re not versed in German you get a feel that the lyrics are what is the central component here, certainly it carries a strong impact of its words, so let’s go through its part to get an idea “du bist genau wie ich / du lebst genau wie ich / du stirbst genau wie ich / deine lügen töten mich - you're just like me / you live exactly as I / you die just like me / your lies kill me”. The conflict is a crux point of ideas within the album too, so if nothing else it’s also illustration of the heart of the album. Two last songs of the album, though still interesting, have this feel of a lessened or slipping focus with the last track ‘knecht der lüge’ providing a feel of openness rather than closure. It won’t set you up on a hill to enjoy the fall, but push you further on inside, to keep wondering.
So the album stays with you for a while... and makes you want for more. Be it exploring the themes in your own universe or listening to more of what is to come from them. For yet one other reason too: I don’t feel the album is at the highest point of their creative zenith with this ‘second home’, I feel that is still to come. Regardless, my conclusion is still: let its taste and flavours run through your brainwaves for sure!
Tracklist
01. freaks like us
02. .com/kill one
03. das blendwerk
04. monster divine
05. who:ah!
06. Machines
07. still die gier
08. out of control
09. knecht der lüge
10. monster divine (video clip)
Line-up
Adrian Hates
Gaun:A
Websites
http://www.comkill.me / https://www.facebook.com/pages/comkill/546188345405566
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 8
Total: 8 / 10
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