Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM.
Background/Info: “Ikarus” is the second EP taken from the last and successful “Wastelands”-album. We get 2 versions from the title song, 2 new tracks and one revisited version of one of the band’s biggest hits ever “Tragic Hero”.
Content: “Ikarus” was one of the album’s best and most kicking songs. We get a “Single version” and a harsher “Crashed Mix”.
Both new songs are in the ‘violent’ and ‘merciless’ vein of the new album. Especially “Dogma” is a heavy sonic assault mixing dark-electronics and EBM. Last, but not least we get a “Neumix” of “Tragic Hero”. The main ‘new’ element is Chris L who’s now singing this great hit.
+ + + : “Ikarus” is the perfect EP! Next to a cool and efficient title song, this EP also reveals impressive B-side cuts. But I can’t speak about B-side cuts when listening to “Dogma” and even “The Last Stand” is a great piece of music. I especially like the irresistible EBM bass line running through “Dogma”. The updated version of “Tragic Hero” reveals a singer who now has perfectly integrated the Funker Vogt commando.
– – – : “Ikarus” is a solid EP without any real minus points. A must have for the fans!
Conclusion: The “Wastelands”-album already revealed there’s a fresh new breeze running through the Funker Vogt camp. They sound harder and more aggressive than ever before and that’s what this new EP seems to confirm.
Best songs: “Ikarus – Single Edit”, “Dogma”, “Tragic Hero – Neumix”.
Rate: (8½).
Artist: www.funkervogt.de / www.facebook.com/officialfunkervogtLabel: www.reporecords.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Repo–Records/119590774857404
About Funker Vogt
Funker Vogt is a German EBM project formed in 1995 by vocalist Jens Kaestel and programmer Gerrit Thomas. Kaestel left the band at the end of 2013 and the group announced its retirement, before reforming in 2017 with new singer Chris L., known from Agonoize. “Ikarus” draws its title song and “Dogma” from the band’s “Wastelands” album, released a month earlier on RepoRecords.
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