Stupre – Make Nazareth Great Again (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: The fourth album of Stupre was already released a while ago; by the end of 2021 to be exact. “Make Nazareth Great Again” is a free-interpretation of bible themes by this French project. Notice by the way a double album has been released as well featuring songs from two unreleased EP’s. Multiple guest singers contributed to the album.
Content: Stupre moves on exploring paths of Dark-Electronics. The bible themes are easily recognizable throughout the song titles, samplings and atmosphere hanging over the work. The sound reveals a haunting Electro-format featuring, hard, pumping, kicks and enraged vocals in French and English. This is the kind of music appealing for fans of Hocico and Suicide Commando. The last 3 songs are remixes by Gunmaker, Larva and Suspifun.
+ + + : I’ve been never a huge Stupre fan but this work took me by surprise. The artist isn’t reinventing Dark-Electro but clearly transformed its own sound into a mature, elaborated, and efficient production. This is powerful and haunting dancefloor stuff driven by pumping kicks and icy, elevating, leads. I like the bible sphere running through the work like a red line. It injects a particular touch to the album. There are numerous attention grabbers featured but I’ll recommend listening to “Mathieu 23.10.2” which is the absolute club-song featuring an irresistible, cold, lead. Other essential cuts are “Corinthiens 10.3.5”, “Galates 5.19” and “Galates X Mathieu 2.0”.
– – – : The remixes don’t exactly add a bonus to this cool work.
Conclusion: Stupre has accomplished a great piece of work which is an album Dark-Electro fans need in their collection.
Best songs: “Mathieu 23.10.2”, “Corinthiens 10.3.5”, “Galates 5.19”, “Galates X Mathieu 2.0”, “Psaumes 90.12.4”, “Proverbes 18.3”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/STUPREofficial
Label: www.advoxya-records.com / www.facebook.com/pages/Advoxya-Records/265765706059
About Stupre
Stupre, also styled STPR, is the dark electro and EBM project of French musician Nico, based in Strasbourg. The debut album, “Priceless”, was released in 2009 on Cortex Records.
Stupre moved to Advoxya Records for “Das Ist Electro Dark” in 2013. The 2019 album “You Are Made For Me” followed on the same label, with Notreguide of the French crossover act Dolls of Pain contributing lyrics and vocals to half of the tracklist. “Make Nazareth Great Again”, a concept album built around bible themes, arrived on Advoxya Records at the end of 2021.
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