NTRSN - People like Gods

Title: People like Gods
Artist: NTRSN
Genre: Industrial, Electro, EBM
Release Date: 29th January 2010
Label: Sigsaly Transmissions



Album Review

By releasing their second long-player `People like Gods´, the Belgian electro / industrial project NTRSN fully relies on a classical soundscape big names such as FRONT 242 have become famous for. The new piece of work was created in collaboration with Maurizio Fasolo (PANKOW) and Peter Van Bogaert (LIQUID-G) and is addressed to nostalgic people adoring old school EBM as well as people who simply enjoy crystal-clear electronic beats and analogue sounds connected to the charismatic vocals of Pieter David. In my opinion, `People like Gods´ displays only one drawback: The all in all 14 brilliant tracks are way too short; at least they could have been a bit longer for my taste.

Already the first song `Flashback´ is able to captivate the listener. The as frigid as reduced intro is followed up by the usual booming beats and a feverishly pulsating melody being underlined with energizing shout-like vocals. Thus, the opener sets the course for what will follow: The title track `People like Gods´ which comes up with a retro bass line and hypnotic speech singings that beam you back to the roots of old school EBM. Though `People like Gods´ is audibly committed to traditional stuff, it never gets boring or repetitive. For example, up-tempo `Coming End´ and dynamic `HO!LA!´ (which reminded me a bit of a technoid version of the “Mission Impossible”-theme) are pepped up with a certain pinch of industrial whilst the stamping and analogue `We Hate You´ - an instrumental anthem which could be intended for being used as a score accompanying a weird movie - illustrates a new facet of the album.

I’m still wondering about the reason why the last track remained untitled, as the beautiful and nearly poetic piece really should have deserved a title alike, because it remarks the final point of an ingenious long-player combining traditional influences as well as the courage to modernity.


Tracklist

01. Flashback
02. People like Gods
03. Never Before (Section One)
04. Coming End
05. You See Me
06. Bodychange
07. Man Is Machine
08. Chaosfields
09. No Remorse
10. Never Before (Section Two)
11. HO!LA!
12. We Hate You
13. Black Hole
14. -untitled track-


Line-up

Pieter David - sequences, vocals, production
Bram Declercq - vocals, video, art


Website

http://www.myspace.com/ntrsn / http://www.ntrsn.com/


Cover-Picture




Rating

Music: 9
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 9 / 10


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