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Artist: Funker Vogt
Title: Companion in Crime
Genre: EBM / Electro / Industrial
Release Date: 28th June 2013
Label: Out Of Line


Album Review

“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.” This is one of the most known aphorisms of Susan Sontag. In its hyperbole it has a kernel of truth. And it is this very hyperbole that has become the basic lyrical theme of not only FUNKER VOGT but also of the Industrial scene. Add one more; brute atheism’s view of religion as fifty shades of criminality. In the simplistic universe FUNKER VOGT have managed to construct things would be moving if only by acceleration and hard beats.

This is the case indeed of this album and you have to add some more melodic moments like ‘Our Life’ in band’s expected tradition to have a full glimpse of it. Overall they have one cool hit, ‘Gott Noch Nicht’, and some decently nice moments like the ‘Columbine’ and SUICIDE COMMANDO’s remix of it. But what remains of it? Those who think of this album in terms of indictment of the Western civilisation, an insightful view of all the negatives in it that are aplenty  will find that if you gaze long enough inside a toilet the toilet gazes back. In other words, everything suffers from Jacobinism, this god-damned political moralism that plagues the scene. 


Tracklist

CD1
01. Columbine
02. Mein Weg
03. Religion
04. Six Feet Under
05. Kampf den Machinen
06. Gott Noch Nicht
07. Kill on Command
08. Our Life
09. Kapitulation
10. W.o.t.W.
11. The Firm
12. Revolution
13. Brüder

CD2
Battlefield of Love
Salvation
Columbine (MassacREmix by Suicide Commando)
Six Feet Under (Buried)
Gott Noch Nicht (Extended)


Line-up

Gerrit Thomas
Jens Kästel


Websites

http://funker-vogt.com/https://www.facebook.com/funkervogt.de


Cover Picture

funkervogt companionincrime


Rating

Music: 6
Sound: 8
Total: 7 / 10





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