Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Set up in the late 80s by Canadian musician Don…
Genre/Influences:
EBM,
dark-electro, industrial.
Background/Info:
Set
up in the late 80s by Canadian musician Don Gordon, Numb became an influential
band and especially during the 90s. The sound became progressively harder,
reaching a kind of hard-core industrial style. Twenty one years after the last
album (cf. “Language Of Silence” released on the legendary Zoth Ommog label),
Numb is back!
Content:
Forget
about the albums released in the 90s, “Mortal Geometry” sounds as the ‘new’
Numb or should I say a return to the sources. The songs are moving in between
sophisticated EBM and dark/minimal electronics with an industrial flavor on
top. The songs are carried by solid bass lines, industrial sound treatments and
a few trance passages. I also noticed a few more cinematic-inspired cuts. There
are several instrumental tracks featured while most of the vocal parts feel a
bit like an extra effect.
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+ + :
This album has nothing to do with the Numb-releases we’ve heard in the
90s. The electronic compositions have this Canadian sophisticated sound, which
might remind a few other compatriots. But Numb has been never a copyist and
strives for a personal sound. It feels like ‘updated retro-electronics’ based
upon great sound manipulations and a high tech production process. There are
not a lot of vocals, but the way they’ve been produced is deadly efficient.
There are several great songs featured at this opus.
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– – :
Each album always has a few forgettable cuts. I’m not a huge fan of “How
It Ends”, which according to me doesn’t really deserves its place among the
great tracklist.
Conclusion:
Numb
strikes back with style and an incomparable sound intelligence. It’s amazing to
see how veterans from this scene still have more creative input than young and
so-called ‘talented’ artists. This is a great album!
Best
songs:
“When Gravity Fails”, “The Waiting Room”, “Complicit Silence”, “Summer
Lawns”, “Redact”.
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