Thee Hyphen – Incidental Tools Of Confusion (Album – BOREDOMproduct)

Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: BOREDOMproduct brings us back in time, to one of the label’s first releases. Thee Hyphen was the solo-project of Member U-0176 who got later on involved with Celluloide and Signal Bruit. This album was originally released in 1994 on cassette and CDR and has been now remastered and released on CD for the very first time.

Content: Thee Hyphen can be best defined as Electro-Pop, but clearly an atypical format for its particular bleeps (sometimes reminding me of Celluloide) and Experimental treatments. It sometimes makes me think of an ‘outer-space’ edit of Depeche Mode. Analogue effects and subtle, metallic sound treatments are running through the work with some string parts on top. The vocals have something sweet. The last song is a kind of ‘bonus’ remix of “Into Dirt”.

+ + + : If you consider this album is nearly 30 years old, it’s simply amazing to see how visionary this album was. The songs don’t suffer from any weight of time and still have a refreshing touch because of the bleeping sequences and refined metallic sound treatments. It has been a great work to clean up all the sound impurities of the original edit to get this professional result.

– – – : I think some parts of the vocals could have been a bit more passionate.

Conclusion: I think it was a great idea to recover this album from dust, which is an amazing opportunity to rediscover this project.

Best songs: “Into Dirt – Remix”, “Into Dirt”, “Plea Of Grief”, “This Aching Kiss”.

Rate: 7½.

Artist: www.theehyphen.online.fr / www.facebook.com/theehyphen

Label: www.boredomproduct.online.fr / www.facebook.com/boredomproduct

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