Reviews
2006-04-06
If one was forced to choose a suitable phrase to describe Forgotten Sunrise’s music, one would probably say: “music for a cyberpunk movie” (assuming one knows what cyberpunk is).
This release is actually their debut full length album (after a demo, several MCD’s and a very successful single titled “Ple:se Disco:nnect Me”) and it features a well poured mixture of various electronic music styles; going through Techno tempos, Industrial arrangements and sounds, Futurepop bitter-sweetnes, Trip Hop qualities, EBM bizarreness, some gothic voices and various death/black metal growls.
The opener, “Outumnyo:nic”, starts by stretching some sounds and goes into a light beat escorted by very well fitted death growls – variety is the name of the game – which quickly get substituted by a clean-shaman-like voice; you get the picture, right? It’s all about touching you softly and ever so sweetly and then turning it so it would seem twisted. One should change his call to: “A good cyberpunk movie”.
The kind of music we find here makes the mind drift away; occasional smiles come up while listening to “The Doubletalker & The Sle: Perspe: Ker” and “(Life) 24H”, be it positive ones or sinister ones.
A couple of highlights here are the wonderful “Surroundcosmos” where the growls and clean female vocal combination does the trick (and so do the clean male vocals in the verses), and the well crafted “Please Disco-Nnect Me” where the band expresses itself without any boundaries.
As a bonus, the group decided to add a remix of “The Doubletalker & The Sle: Perspe: Ker” done by Ghost from the legendary GGFH – this is where things are pushed beyond the limit.
To make a long story short, this album would probably get Forgotten Sunrise plenty of new followers as well as strengthen the position with their older ones.
Expect to hear something out of this in the next Gothic club you go to or at least let it roll on the way there.
Ofer Vayner
