Uncreated – Symbiosis (Album – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Patrik Hansson (Vanguard singer) released the second album of his solo-project Uncreated in November 2021. The opus was released right after a few singles featuring guest singers.
Content: Patrik Hansson got some good company to achieve this work. He asked guest singers to join in. Mark Hockings (Mesh) and Björn Marius Borg (Xenturion Prime) were already featured on the previously released singles while Louise Marchione (Planet R/Thermostatic), Mikael Engström (Covered In Snow), Richard Flow (Machinista) and Arielle Andersson (Octolab) completed the list. Patrik is singing on a few songs as well. The music remains pure Electro-Pop -and still more poppy than Vanguard, driven by hopping sequences, retro sound treatments and danceable beats.
Nite did a remix of “Hand Grenade” featuring Mark Hockings. The CD version features 2 bonus songs which are extended versions.
+ + + : The concept of working with guest singers is not new but rather surprising for Patrik Hansson who’s a talented singer himself. It however resulted in extra diversity while the artist could probably focus more on songwriting and production. “Hand Grenade” remains an outstanding song, but I also have to mention the other single “Rebuild The Future” featuring Marius Borg and the more aggressive “Alive” featuring Richard Flow. I also enjoyed “One Night In Blue” featuring Louise Marchione’s delicate timbre of voice. Nite also accomplished a cool remix of “Hand Grenade”.
– – – : I only noticed a few ‘softer’ songs which couldn’t convince me but which injected a break to the work.
Conclusion: Uncreated only confirms its immense potential, being next to Vanguard, another great Electro-Pop project of Patrik Hansson.
Best songs: “Hand Grenade”, “Rebuild The Future”, “Alive”, “One Night In Blue”, “Hand Grenade – Nite Remix”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/uncreatedofficial
Label: www.conzoomrecords.de / www.facebook.com/conzoomofficial
Conzoom Records released “Symbiosis” on 12 November 2021, digitally and on CD. The eleven tracks are “In Harmony”, “One Night In Blue”, “Rebuild The Future”, “Embracing Your Ghost”, “Rush”, “Hand Grenade”, “Flaws and Mistakes”, “Alive”, “Find Your Way”, “Bleeding Out” and the NITE remix of “Hand Grenade”. The guest vocals come from Louise Marchione of Planet R, Björn Marius Borg of Xenturion Prime, Mikael Engström of Covered in Snow, Mark Hockings of Mesh, Richard Flow of Machinista and Arielle Andersson of Octolab.
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About Uncreated
Uncreated is the solo project of Swedish musician Patrik Hansson, who also sings in the electropop band Vanguard. The project started in 2017 with “You Know Nothing”, followed by “Evolve” in 2018.
Conzoom Records began working with the project on the “Eternal” EP in 2019. The “Break Free” EP with Robert Enforsen of Elegant Machinery arrived in June 2020, the remix set “My Core Is Remixed” the same year, and the singles “Hand Grenade” and “Rebuild The Future” in 2021 before the label collected them on a CD EP.
“Symbiosis” followed in November 2021. Hansson set out the difference between his two projects in the Click Interview with Uncreated in May 2022, and had earlier guested on the Elektrostaub EP “We Are Dreamers” in March 2021.
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