Visionary Complex

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共11首歌曲

艺人: Fear Cult
语种: 英语
厂牌: Cleopatra
发行时间: 2003年04月29日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Johnny Loftus

Visionary Complex is the full-length label debut of Los Angeles goth scenester Matt Riser, who together with a revolving cast has been recording and performing under the Fear Cult moniker since the early '90s. But from note one of the album, it's obvious that Riser isn't interested in the harder-edged gloom and doom of neo-goth acts like Gravity Kills. Rather, Fear Cult can only be seen as a reaction to goth's best-known clichés. The album kicks off with the graveyard smash "Drop Dead." Exhorting the listener to "drop dead on the dancefloor," the song's keening synths and relentless melody suggest Nitzer Ebb covering Dead or Alive, rather than any reference to the mid-'90s marriage of goth to metal and punk. "Drop Dead"'s sleazy, danceable vibe continues with "People Like Me Die Young" and "Sex Beat," the latter of which features vocals from one of the two female members recruited by Riser for this latest incarnation of Fear Cult. The single "She Loves Me Not" is dominated by buzz-saw guitar and melodramatic, theatrical lyrics that read like the death poetry of a coffeehouse mope. By the time Fear Cult gets around to a hissing, wheezing cover of Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance" -- complete with a fake British accent -- the idea that Riser and his mates might be kidding seems more and more palpable. After all, gothic cover versions of sugar pop songs, hiccupping woe-is-me lyrics, treble-soaked guitars, and industrial dance underpinnings are such broadly painted clichés of the goth scene, one begins to wonder whether Fear Cult didn't get the memo that music evolves.