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Tracklist
1. Deeprooted
2. Come to Pass
3. I Watch You Fall
4. A Cancer in our Midst (Plague One)
5. Last Lights
6. Nobody Wants the Truth
7. My Journal of the Plague Years (Fuckmensch Warmensch)
8. The Cure-All
9. Transmigrant
10. Son of Night Brother of Sleep
Ambient textures dominate on this record. Often sounding like a collision between The Police and the most abysmally-minded darkwave music, Manes once again impresses with a twisted electronic mass that is most often very subtle, theirs is a noticeably European sort of bleakness. Please meet the anti-Moby, the abrasive, jagged edge of sonic mechanism, the dark prophets foretelling the demise of Earth in a retrospective frame. Manes has been known for refusing to accept boundaries within their music. Moving from the somberness of Nick Cave to a psychedelic dose of hip-hop complete with a West Coast gangsta rap bite, these Norwegians ebb and flow with the frothy grape tide, fearless in their abstract, style-mashing approach. Raps by WT (Shogunz) give the track “Come To Pass” a strangely addictive Middle Eastern flavor. Distant, reverberating and brief, “I Watch You Fall” displays a buzzing reverb in its percussion that's perfectly hypnotizing. It must be noted that Manes is an overwhelmingly artistic collection of musical minds. Beneath the buzz and sonic boom bass blasts, there's a genuinely inspirational method to their madness. Excellent music for the kinds of clubs where it's so chilly, there's an icicle hanging from the bottom of the sullen, black-tressed girl in the corner's lip-ring, How The World Came To An End is a superfluous example of exactly what kind of music can be made, and that the art of the evil social butterfly can be genuinely wonderful for those who've the insight to open up their pitch-black minds.
Review by: EF
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