Artist: Impurfekt
Title: Savior
Genre: Ambient
Release Date: 19th August 2011
Label: Shinto Records
Album Review
You’d be forgiven for thinking that these days the US is falling behind Europe in terms of ambient electronic output. Certainly the more aggressive side of electronic music has a firm foothold, but the more avant-garde and laid back varieties seem to go largely unnoticed. With this in mind IMPURFEKT have crafted themselves an aggressive brand of ambient music. Where sinister soundscapes meet Aggrotech mayhem in a head on collision. The result on songs like ‘Ashes’, ‘God is the Devil’, ‘Stillborn’ and ‘The Day the Earth stood still’ is a strange balance of sound that owes just as much to VELVET ACID CHRIST as it does to ENIGMA.
IMPURFEKT is definitely an interesting creature, utilising principally electronics and samples alongside vocals rather than the standard fare of mechanical noises and sampled vocals. At times the mixing can sound a little off, but this could be put down to preference rather than any technical failing. But on the whole this is a solid offering that walks a fine line between melody and dissonance and rarely stumbles. It would be interesting to see how these tracks would be replicated live. The vividness of the emotions they could illicit in an audience if they were presented alongside a suitable visual accompaniment could very well make them all the more memorable.
Tracklist
01. Ashes
02. Hero
03. God Is The Devil
04. The Brave One
05. Fade Away
06. Cyborg
07. Stillborn
08. Shadow
09. Moon
10. The Day The Earth Stood Still
Line-up
Aaron Russell
Websites
www.impurfekt.com / https://www.facebook.com/impurfekt
Album Cover
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 7
Extras: -
Total: 7.5 / 10
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