Artist: Doktryn
Title: All u need is Love
Genre: Electro
Release Date: July 2011
Label: Self Released
Album Review
How charming were the 80’s? Not so very much. Where to start? In U.S. of America President is Ronald Reagan who balances between conservatism and paranoia. In U.K. the Prime Minister is Margaret Thatcher who declared war not only for the Falklands but to labour unions as well. And in-between the epidemic of AIDS stroke, putting the final tombstone in the hippy dreams of sixties and seventies about the “free love” and the “all you need is love”. It was the time when the puritans started to strike back. And the question now is that those who know all that, who are deeply familiar with these days, how should they approach the ‘80’s musically? In some kind of retro nostalgia which is commonplace lately?
With that the DOKTRYN from Paris chose a different way. They’ve made their flag ‘The Taxi Driver’ and through it they attack not only the hippies but the fraudulent hopes and aspirations which were carried through 70’s and were used to “explain” not only the social changes but also one of the toughest phases of the Cold War. One should listen to the BEATLES’s ‘All you need is Love’ and the homonymous from DOKTRYN to feel the difference not only in music terms but as a point of view of life. Their music is electro / dark with the at times “dirty” noise to pinpoint brilliantly the chaotic elements of these days. The only thing that is really disappointing in this, their first CD, is that they’ve stayed half-way. They preferred to release only four songs stating that they are in the process of writing more.
Throughout, the feeling listening to this CD is that the band has what it takes to make its own mark and I’m expecting great things to come from this band.
Tracklist
All u need is Love – 4:49
Aids – 3:09
The Taxi Driver – 2:34
Does he talk to you? – 3:59
Line-up
Julien
Stephane
Websites
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Doktryn/ / http://www.reverbnation.com/doktryn
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 7
Sound: 8
Total: 7.5 / 10
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