Artist: Diffuzion
Title: Winter Cities
Genre: Industrial
Release Date: 25th November 2011
Label: Alfa Matrix
Album Review
The Belorussian DIFFUZION manage to refine their sound with each release they make and add some extra layers as well. ‘Winter Cities’ is their third album that lingers between EBM, Industrial Dark Electro and Darkwave. And as far it concerns the “intelligent” Industrial they do just fine. Yet they refuse to put their hands in the mud to produce something more edgy. It is something that AUTODAFEH and ACYLUM are no slackers with and their versions of ‘C.S.’ are by far more “dirty” and danceable than the original song. The songs that stand out here are surely ‘Winter Cities’ - a mid-tempo Darkwave metaphor about the winter and alienation- which, I think, if it were sung (at least partially) in Russian then the message would come out stronger as it would point out to places like Kolyma. The other notable song and probably the most danceable one is the dark electro ‘For The Prey’, a song that carries the heritage of the FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY which as it seems was the band that deeply influenced DIFFUZION on a whole. In short, this CD is an important addition to the DIFFUZION catalogue, throughout enjoyable though not exactly a dance-floor filler. Yet the band establishes itself among the notable ones and that’s quite something per se.
Tracklist
01. Winter Cities
02. DBD (While You Can)
03. Lace Of Veins
04. C.S.
05. Pure Venom
06. Dust2Dust
07. Vogue
08. For The Prey
09. What Will You Do For Love
10. She’s Machine
11. Playing God
12. The One
13. Blind
14. No 27
15. C.S. (Autodafeh Remix)
16. C.S. (Acylum Remix)
Line-up
Xev - music,vocals & lyrics
Fof - arrangements, synthesizers & production
Taelih - synthesizers & live keyboards
Websites
https://www.facebook.com/diffuzion / http://www.diffuzion.org
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 7
Sound: 8
Total: 7.5 / 10
