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After a six-year hiatus, former
member
revived his
project with the full-length
, a dreary album of dark soundscapes and a
singer. Taking his
track off 1992's
and blowing it up into a loose concept album,
has hired
man
to contribute lyrics, guitar, and his swampy vocals to the album. The opening
is the grand meeting between
's creeping
and
's creepy electronics, while the satisfying
finds
acting as
's producer until he dissolves the tune into
. The rest of their output sounds like a clever soundtrack searching for a moody movie, which is just to say it's both convincing and forgettable. The other track of note is the dreamy
which finds guest vocalist
speaking in ethereal tongues and sounding quite a bit like a
sample. There's heaviness to the rest of the album that ponderously plods until numbness sets in, plus a collage in the booklet that perfectly illustrates
's big problem. In the collage, an antique picture of families frolicking at the beach is combined with an atom bomb exploding overhead, and then two showroom dummies are haphazardly planted in the foreground.
is equally hackneyed and entry-level postmodern, but like the collage, it's skillfully polished and best suited for lovers of dark, incongruous genre blending. ~ David Jeffries