VNV NationMatter + Form
Electronica/Dance
Anachron Sounds (Europe)
Metropolis Records (US)
SSC (Scandinavia)
7/8
Electronica/Dance
Anachron Sounds (Europe)
Metropolis Records (US)
SSC (Scandinavia)
7/8
VNV Nation is a not well heard of band, but they are definitely good. They are into the fun and fast paced songs, but they also can produce a wonderful and thoughtful laid back song.
One very energetic song is "Perpetual". A song that uses different techniques to change the song, but still posses a smooth feel. The voice in it is also amazing. It has a above-human feel to it, as if it is telling an important, life changing message. They mixed the voice and the interments to produce a wonderful song.
A much slower, but not at all worse, song is "Endless Skies". It starts off slow, and a bit repetitive with the same pattern of noise, but changes into a vocal piece. It is as if you are sitting in a boat, slowly drifting down a river, looking up at the sky, just looking. Thinking. Pondering. Just completely lost in the moment. Along with this it also has a underlining up beat tone to it. It pulls of slow and fast together into one song. This song fills you up with peace, even if only for a moment. It also has a beautiful ending finishing off with;
"You live within the sense
Of the stillness of time".
Like "Endless Skies", "Colours Of Rain" is a slow and thoughtful song, but it is much sadder. It has the tone of death, or betrayal. It mixes slow keys from the piano with a quivering violin. Beautiful as it is, it doesn't quite fit with the other songs. In an album with fun and upbeat songs, it slows the tempo down. Despite that fact, a truly wonderful piece.
Final song. "Arena" is a song that uses new techniques like many of the other songs. But it puts the beat of the song out beautifully. This song sounds like new life being born. A new chance. It is smooth and artsy and absolutely astounding. It has sounds from out of this world. A very beautiful piece.
These four songs should be listened to at least once.
The biggest downside to Matter + Form is that a lot of the songs I didn't mention are all very similar and repetitive. "Chrome", "Strata", "Interceptor" and "Entropy" all have the same intro, mildly slow, getting into the beat. Then they go to a very loud and intense section, then settling for something in between the two. After that they go back to the loud and the end up by slowly fading out the sound. Even if the sounds of them are different, its the same pattern. Just gets a bit repetitive if listened over and over to.
One very energetic song is "Perpetual". A song that uses different techniques to change the song, but still posses a smooth feel. The voice in it is also amazing. It has a above-human feel to it, as if it is telling an important, life changing message. They mixed the voice and the interments to produce a wonderful song.
A much slower, but not at all worse, song is "Endless Skies". It starts off slow, and a bit repetitive with the same pattern of noise, but changes into a vocal piece. It is as if you are sitting in a boat, slowly drifting down a river, looking up at the sky, just looking. Thinking. Pondering. Just completely lost in the moment. Along with this it also has a underlining up beat tone to it. It pulls of slow and fast together into one song. This song fills you up with peace, even if only for a moment. It also has a beautiful ending finishing off with;
"You live within the sense
Of the stillness of time".
Like "Endless Skies", "Colours Of Rain" is a slow and thoughtful song, but it is much sadder. It has the tone of death, or betrayal. It mixes slow keys from the piano with a quivering violin. Beautiful as it is, it doesn't quite fit with the other songs. In an album with fun and upbeat songs, it slows the tempo down. Despite that fact, a truly wonderful piece.
Final song. "Arena" is a song that uses new techniques like many of the other songs. But it puts the beat of the song out beautifully. This song sounds like new life being born. A new chance. It is smooth and artsy and absolutely astounding. It has sounds from out of this world. A very beautiful piece.
These four songs should be listened to at least once.
The biggest downside to Matter + Form is that a lot of the songs I didn't mention are all very similar and repetitive. "Chrome", "Strata", "Interceptor" and "Entropy" all have the same intro, mildly slow, getting into the beat. Then they go to a very loud and intense section, then settling for something in between the two. After that they go back to the loud and the end up by slowly fading out the sound. Even if the sounds of them are different, its the same pattern. Just gets a bit repetitive if listened over and over to.
2 comments:
My god. This stuff is like drugs or something. I mean, its really damn sexy! I have to say, this is such a different sound that I have never heard...and I love it! I mean, if you just listen to the song Perpetual, its just great!
So, to give you all a kind of an idea of what this all is, imagine like a mix of Benny Bennassi, Interpol, Moby, and Duran Duran.
Something I would really suggest is a band called Infected Mushroom. It is a electronic band that supplies a very different sound, but not so much rock.
Man, you gotta love this innovation! <3
Ooh, this band sounds very fun. I listened to them on youtube, heehee. Like you said, Perpetual is a pretty phenomenal song. You were also right about some of the songs being pretty lackluster, but none of them were actually worthy of being called 'bad songs.' RJ is right, too. Something about them really reminds me of Duran Duran.
Also, wow, Endless Skies is absolute love. Great music. :D
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