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Artist: Junksista
Title: High Voltage Confessions
Genre: Electro / Alternative / Industrial
Release Date: 21st November 2014
Label: Alfa Matrix


Album Review

JUNKSISTA is a great underground mainstream dance industrial. It is something that should take its turn in clubs at the parties. If you need a rest from military critical aggro-stuff, of shouting outsiders who hate the whole world, here is the album for relax. Merry electronic tunes will drive you to the imaginary party island with unfading pink sunset and sweet alcoholic cocktails running as rivers. The record is pretty light, dancy and pop. JUNKSISTA is something like KYLIE MINOGUE meets ARCHIVE.

Musically the album represents quite a wide range of melodies. All in all it consists of very simple pop-beats, drum-machines from the 80-s, some space bass-lines and muted guitars. The vocals create its own dimension. Diana is not a singer, but she will make you follow her from the first till the very last line. No matter which language she uses, English, German or French, you just listen to the stuff she says. Because it sounds just beautiful. At the same time JUNKSISTA is full of sarcasm close to humiliation. Even if the music is quite relaxing, and the vocals inspire the sweetest daydreams, the moment you start to listen to lyrics all of your cloud-castles are broken to the ground. Probably except for the track 'Why', which original and the only version you'll find on the bonus CD of the limited edition. This song is close to the ARCHIVE – pretty dark, sad and whining. The rest is just rude “I don't like you but you're the sweetest honey, sex on the stick – that's what you are“ ('Sex on the Stick'), pretty immature: “I'm gonna scratch your car and burn your clothes“ ('I Hate You'), quite (bi)sexual ('Panties'), and very female: “You wanna be like us, but you're not, sorry, you're not, and it makes you sad“ ('P.I.T.T.').

Listening to both CDs in the row – the original album and the bonus CD with remixes, it's funny to notice that the originals actually sound rather like remixes. Somebody who is more familiar with the remixing bands as CRYO would surely get exactly this impression. The remixers put the light sweet JUNKSISTA's melodies a bit to the ground and gave it some depth. The artists took care that 'High Voltage Confessions' doesn't sound that pop. It was a hard challenge indeed, but they managed to open a new level of the original tracks for sure.


Tracklist

CD1
01. Get A Grip
02. Live A Little
03. I Hate You
04. Sex On A Stick
05. The Truth
06. I Said
07. True Love
08. Strom
09. P.I.T.T.
10. Strictly Physical
11. Confide
12. Panties
13. Happiness
CD2
01. Live A little - Lay Zee (JoNat Radio Remix)
02. Sex On A Stick (Cryo Remix)
03. P.I.T.T. (Ma Public Therapy Remix)
04. The Truth - Imaginary War (Black Trip Remix)
05. Strom (Metroland Remix)
06. The Truth (Restriction 9 Remix)
07. Happiness (Dekad Remix)
08. Why
09. Hard To Get
10. True Love (Junksista's Groovy as a MF Remix)





Line-up

Boog & Diana


Website

http://www.junksista.de / https://www.facebook.com/Junksista


Cover Picture

junksista highvoltage


Rating

Music: 6
Sound: 6
Total: 6 / 10





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