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Are songs written by sad musicians filled with deeper emotion?
One could almost believe this when you listen to the Album-Debut of the
Italian Band 'Klimt 1918'. It seems that the partylovers are continuously
in a good mood, always ready with a joke up their sleeves, to take in the
ladies with unfailing humor and charming laughter. But… that's not truly
so with these kind of boys.
Quite the opposite is the truth: for years they played in a death metal
band (named: 'Another Day') which made every single one of them to a real
cry-baby. On one hand it is pitiable on the other hand their superb music
is the result. Almost progressive, they renounced the use of incredibly
long solos. This Album is the example that top-heavy music is not
neccessarily complicated.
The Intro, with the ambiguous name " - " is the opening song on this disk,
and is not the only track with several mysterious samples – that must
surely have some sort of meaning?
The first thought to the irritated black soul is: 'They can only do
better', and yes, that is correct! No sooner has the singer, Marco
Soellner, began to allow his wonderfully melancholy voice to ring out,
that all Gothic fans feel immediately at home. Typical metal trademarks
like, Double Bass and heavily distorted Guitar, are only sparsely
incorporated and thus create, for this reason, pieces of geneality, like
the track, "We don't need no music", with a constantly rising crescendo
towards the end. In so much are the tracks "That Girl" and "Stalingrad
Theme" the only fully 'Rock-ish and Metal-ish' sounding songs (at least in
some parts).
Therefore Track 4 wouldn't be the only recommendation, in addition we
should also mention "If only you could see me now", an equally excellent
prduction. But in a special way each song has its own individual great
moments, even though they are economically distributed.
"Undressed Momento" gives evidence once again of a 'Golden' touch, which
unknown bands are pulled directly from the street corner into the studio
of this young label 'My Kingdom Music', one of the best Gothic productions
this year. Hopefully this young group will not attempt suicide before the
next album arrives in the music stores.
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