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binarypark deviated
Artist: Binary Park
Title: The Deviated
Genre: Electro / EBM / Industrial
Release Date: 7th October 2011
Label: Infacted Recordings


Album Review

Take FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY add some tons of electronic, dark ambient and dark-step music and you’ll have an idea what BINARY PARK sound like. A band that released its previous album some months ago came back with seven new tracks and doesn’t stop to make an impression. ‘Hidden Room’ opens the album and it is quite catchy in its heaviness that builds an almost claustrophobic atmosphere. The band easily demonstrates that such an atmosphere can also be thin with the second track, ‘Into The Deep’, a softer but nonetheless interesting song in the tradition of the HAUJOBB. In the couple next tracks a more dancing aspect is dominant, an aspect which is not their strong point though ‘She’s Insane’ might stay a bit longer with you as the catchier of the two. Back in their stronghold ‘Not In Love’ with its enormous grooviness is the best song in this album. It feels that the band draws inspiration from post-apocalyptic movies and puts that impact to a modern situation.

In the same heights ‘Lick The Blade’ though it brought to my mind something from the meat factory party yet in a way it is closer to the brilliant score of Nobuhiko Morino in ‘Versus’. Electronic fun in abundance plus the right spice of depression or regrets just to avoid the monotony of the mixture. This holds as well for ‘Keep On Falling Down’ with an extra twist of creepiness and melodic blasts. As for the remixes their addition brings an extra treat of quality, with their own twists, as say the futuristic ‘Worlds Collide’ (Impact Mix) with its descriptiveness and the mechanical, distorted echoes. My favourite would be the last ‘Into The Deep’ (Architect Remix) with its DEPECHE MODE-like quality. The band has managed to have an impressive variety in its sound and the right levels of minimalism avoiding thus the platitudes that sometimes come along with the experimentations of sound.


Tracklist

01. The Hidden Room
02. Into The Deep
03. She’s Insane
04. The Deviated
05. Not In Love
06. Lick The Blade
07. Keep On Falling Down
08. Worlds Collide (Impact Mix)
09. Into The Deep (Liquid Divine Remix)
10. Into The Deep (Architect Remix)


Line-up

Huw Jones
Alfred Gregl
Torben Schmidt


Websites

https://www.facebook.com/binarypark


Cover Picture

binarypark deviated


Rating

Music: 8
Sound: 8
Total: 8 / 10


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