Minor Key – Bionic (Album – Minor Key)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Swedish artist Andreas Sandberg released the second full length of his sonic brainchild, Minor Key, by the end of last year. The work features twelve songs.
Content: It’s too easy and even a bit reductive defining the sound of this project as simply Electro-Pop. The songs are clearly driven by good-old Electro-Pop influences, but there’s a twist between robotic passages reminding me of Kraftwerk, minimal tracks and more ‘classical’ Electro-Pop songs. Now into bombastic drum sections, then into reverie, the album is quite versatile, which is also reflected in the production of the vocals.
+ + + : Minor Key clearly tries to produce a more personal work. The result is pretty varied so in the end we all will find some cuts to our taste. I prefer the minimal- and somewhat Kraftwerk-ian influences running through the work, “Miasma” being a real great song with female pitched vocals plus male vocals and old-styled synth lines. Another attention grabber is “Con Sumer”, which is a well-crafted song with great, filtered sequences.
– – – : The more ‘classical’ Electro-Pop approach, which is noticeable in the last part of the work, left me a bit more skeptical.
Conclusion: Minor Key clearly has a potential, which has to be elaborated.
Best songs: “Miasma”, “Con Sumer”, “Treason”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/minorkeey
About Minor Key
Minor Key is the electronic project of Swedish musician Andreas Sandberg. Discogs lists the project from 2017 onward, when the EP “Lustful Exhibit” and the album “This Feudal Enterprise” were both self-released on CDr.
The single “Never Let Down” followed in 2019 through Incarnate Sound Studio, and the album “Bionic Circus” was self-released in 2020. The project has worked outside a label structure, issuing its records itself in digital and CD form.
A Bandcamp page for this release has not been confirmed. The album reviewed here is the second Minor Key full-length, issued at the end of 2020 with twelve tracks.
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