[kj] MMXII after a few listens

[Leigh Newton]

It's probably not as good as Absolute Dissent but it's really damn good all the same. WAY better than Democracy and better than KJ2003 as well. Possibly even better than Pandemonium? I dunno. That's a weird album for me. Some of their best songs are on there as well as some of their most forgettable. The filler on this one is far more enjoyable, I find (Rapture, for example. I'll take that song any day over Labyrinth, Pleasures of the Flesh, Millenium, Black Moon).
 
Pole Shift is a nice, slow burner of a first track. An interesting change. Lots of open space in that song. It's not wall-to-wall guitars which is particularly incharacteristic of an opening track. Awesome vocal melodies from Jaz on that one too. Fema Camp is killer, don't know why anyone would have a problem with that one. Instant like. All Hallow's Eve is probably the best song on the album. Amazing closer. Colony Collapse and Corporate Elect are also great, the former having a sweet and dirty glam-type groove and the latter reminding me quite a little bit of MINOG. Still taking the rest of it in.
 
Leigh
 

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 From: Rob Moss <rob.moss at gmx.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:34:12 AM
Subject: [kj] MMXII after a few listens
  



Still think it's bloody good.

Pole Shift is 2 minutes too long and Trance gets a bit lost, but I really do like the variation in this album.
I can see what some are saying about Geordie's guitar being a bit lost, but actually you can say that about alot of the releases. His truly identifiable sound disappears after Night Time for me, brief appearance on Extremities, but since then I think it has become a "part" of the sound. And I think that shows that he must be comfortable in his own skin to relaise that it's not all about the guitar.

There is immense power in this album and that has always moved me about KJ. Those low synth growls and almost swamped reverb vocals give it an overall feeling of onslaught!

Not many bands at this stage in their career can come anyway close to this.



 
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