Artist: compUterus
Title: compUterus
Genre: Industrial / Noise
Release Date: 1st July 2011
Label: Bugs crawling out of people
Album Review
With this very first CD of COMPUTERUS, the band as it seems aims to make a soundtrack for a movie unlikely to be made. And I’m saying unlikely not only because it is predictable at many points but because you cannot make a ‘Terminator’- like movie to last 42 minutes where the lustful protagonist finds bliss among cables, Freon and screws, like a cheap imitation of Giger’s paintings. But after all maybe the movie has nothing to do with the ‘Terminator’, maybe it is titled ‘Alien Zombies in Bathing Suits’ and it is a family drama. In that case I need to pull my eyes out. Besides the fun of it, the band develops a relationship with its computerised instrumentation that is almost erotic but the results are not as good as expected to be. Here and there you have the feeling of an extended sound check for a bigger band rather than an effort to produce their own stuff.
At times, Kowalczyk succeeds to impress; for example in ‘Progress is a Train’, ‘7 Souls’ or ‘Comes From Outer Space’ where the noise and industrial elements of his music blend perfectly well in order to produce what else but a futuristic dystopia. In other instances he fails; for example in ‘Creep’ which sounds cheesy-creepy as it is expected to be in a B-movie, completely uninspired. It seems to me that there was a thought to show the lack of pure emotion, to present the distractions as an essential part of life and that it is to be shown with sounds of television and other small sound tricks. But while in theory this sounds nice and cool the realisation of this target lacks tremendously in depth which pretends it owns. The feeling out of it is that Kowalczyk’s sound is stuffed with useless soundscapes for no other reason than to fill the space of a CD. On that this CD truly resembles a (bad quality) B-movie, where the main idea is used as a pretext for an exhibition of some kind of plastic monsters slaughterhouse by a brilliantine haired protagonist only before he gets the girl and live happily ever after. And that movie is half as good as ‘Braindead’ was...
Tracklist
01. Grid – 4:13
02. Progress is a Train – 4:06
03. Firebird – 3:58
04. Out of My Way – 3:48
05. 7 Souls – 4:23
06. Creep – 3:48
07. Comes from Outer Space – 3:41
08. Trans Form – 2:17
09. Holy Hell – 3:53
10. Cellar – 3:18
11. To Pieces – 4:51
Line-up
Greg Kowalczyk
Websites
https://www.facebook.com/pages/CompUterus/159497080738769 / http://www.computerus.ca/
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 5
Sound: 7
Total: 6 / 10
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