Title: Eat Your Heart Out
Artist: The Klinik
Genre: Industrial/ Electronic
Release Date: 1st March 2013
Label: Out Of Line
Album Review
The first album with the original line-up in 22 years! The new THE KLINIK album ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ is surely a landmark in the band's history. Marc Verhaeghen and Dirk Ivens are still considered as the core duo of THE KLINIK, although the band had varying line-ups over the years and was even Verhaeghen's solo project for a number of releases. But to most fans the Ivens / Verhaeghen combination is still the “true” KLINIK line-up, and even though there's a new collaborator on ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ with Peter Mastbooms it is Dirk Ivens' formative vocal style and Verhaeghen's talent for creating dark and minimal soundscapes which give distinction to the album.
Fans who hope for club smashers like the classic THE KLINIK songs ‘Black Leather’, ‘Go Back’ or ‘Moving Hands’ might be a little disappointed because there is no real club material on the new album. On the other hand danceable club tracks were also the exception and not the rule in the classic era of THE KLINIK. Since their formation in 1982 in Belgium the trademark sound of THE KLINIK was rather slow, menacing and droning noise with an experimental touch topped with the unmistakeable and often somewhat ghostly vocals of Dirk Ivens. ‘Sick In Your Mind’ (from the 1985 album ‘Sabotage’) is a prime example here, and with songs like ‘Nothing You Can Do’, ‘We Are One’ or ‘Stay’ there are a couple of songs on ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ which fit this category very well. Perhaps ‘In Your Room’ is the dance-floor friendliest song of the album but only time will tell if THE KLINIK can still make an impact on today's Industrial club scene.
The track ‘Those’ is another rather speedy song on ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ and so to speak the title track of the album as its lyrics features the line the long-player is named after. ‘Those’ quite clearly has a few elements from Dirk Ivens' other projects DIVE and SONAR, while the two instrumental tracks ‘Therapy’ and ‘Closing Time’ have rather the Marc Verhaeghen stamp all over them. ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ is an album you will love to listen to at home with the lights switched off. It's a dark trip that just sucks you in, full of buzzing sounds, icy synth lines and repetitive noises. In this sense it's in the same vain as the great classic THE KLINIK albums of the late 1980s and early 1990s like ‘Plague’ (1987) or ‘Time’ (1991). My only complaint is that the running time hardly clocks in at the 40-minute mark - and the music on ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ truly makes you yearn for more, much more! Highly recommended, and let's hope that we don't have to wait for the next Ivens / Verhaeghen collaboration not too long!
Tracklist
01. Nothing You Can Do
02. In Your Room
03. Mindswitch
04. Stay
05. Bite Now Bite
06. Therapy
07. We Are One
08. Those
09. Closing Time
Line-up
Marc Verhaeghens
Dirk Ivens
Peter Mastbooms
Website
http://www.dirkivens.com / https://www.facebook.com/TheKlinikDiveSonarAbsoluteBodyControl
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8.5
Sound: 10
Extras: -
Total: 9.25 / 10
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