Ego Bliss – What The Future Holds (Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Ego Bliss is a Mexican solo-project set up in 2019 by Mario Monk (also involved with Para/Normal). He claims to be inspired by Electro-Pop and EBM. This is the debut-release featuring eleven songs.
Content: After a dreamy debut song, the album rapidly moves towards a rather classical mix of Electro/Future-Pop. The songs are pretty danceable and refined, but still featuring darker passages. The vocals are sometimes half spoken – half sung. This is an album appealing for fans of Frozen Plasma, NamNamBulu ao.
+ + + : Ego Bliss accomplished a noticeable debut-album. The production is mature, featuring well-crafted songs with delicate sound treatments. It’s a fully enjoyable album, which even features a potential hit entitled “The Savior”. This song is carried by a solid bass line and robotic vocals.
– – – : I’m sometimes missing a bit more passion in the production of the vocals.
Conclusion: Ego Bliss sounds like a promising newcomer to the wider fields of Electro-Pop music.
Best songs: “The Saviour”, “2 Victims Of Deceit”, “The Darkest Hour”, “Strange Belief”.
Rate: (7½).
Artist: www.facebook.com/mario.monk.129
Label: www.sector-industrial.com / www.facebook.com/sector.industrial.producciones
About Ego Bliss
Ego Bliss is a Mexican solo project set up in 2019 in Tijuana by Mario Monk, who is also a member of Para Normal. The project mixes melodic Synth-Pop, Darkwave and EBM, built on club-driven rhythms and cinematic synth textures.
“What The Future Holds”, covered here, is the project’s debut album, released through Sector Industrial Producciones. Ego Bliss followed it with the “Future” EP, also on Sector Industrial Producciones, before signing to the German label Infacted Recordings, which released the album “Afterlife”.
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