Artist: Elyseum
Title: Bipolar
Genre: Electronic / Experimental
Release Date: 9th June 2010
Label: Syndrom Records
Album Review
If you like unusual analogue synth / noise music, then this album is certainly for you. Mark Angel formed this project in 2009 to give vent to his mad scientist side it seems for the flavour is definitively offbeat and quirky and somewhat sci-fi. It's an album full of texture and discord, merging sounds and music together to make a seamlessly eerie soundscape of wonderful morbidity. Despite this genre not being my usual cup of tea I found it interesting and clever, poking away at your emotions and thought processes until you latched into the mood that the music tried to convey. If you've ever seen the film 'Event horizon' that would sum up perfectly the flavour of this album with the title track 'Bipolar' grating and leering towards you like a yawning void. My favourite track is 'Reflection', sublime and engaging in its sombre awakening with fabulous choral interspersions and haunting distant piano. I find that track to be a real masterpiece, and in truth it's a thoroughly well conceived and thought provoking album.
Tracklist
01. Bipolar
02. Dead Inside
03. Despair
04. Electric Shock Therapy
05. Emptiness Within
06. Grinder
07. Numb
08. Receptor
09. Reflection
10. Sub-Harmonic
11. Suppression
12. Wrench
Line-up
Mark Angel - programming, synths and all other things
Website
http://www.myspace.com/elyseum2
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 8.5 / 10
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