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Rating: An album far away, far from what is the music that usually passes through my headphones: they say it is dubstep, and I had to do some research to understand what this genre of electronic music was that originated and developed in the London underground starting from 2000, growing over the past two years reaching music critics, but not yet the top of the charts.
The problem in this sense is that it is instrumental music and rarely do non-vocal tracks perform well on the charts. So, this genre ends up being listened to or danced to in clubs.
I was saying Untrue is distant, no matter how much I try to put the headphones in my ears, the sound reaches me like an echo from space.
Listening to the album leaves you hypnotized, a hypnosis that recalls a dark and heavy levity, that unwittingly drags you into the darkness of industrial London, under the rain, in the mud of the bass of "Untrue", which titles the album.
Lucifer is emblematic of this music: now an angel, now a devil, now music to listen to. Sounds upon sounds, noises, celestial voices as demonic: simply dissolved; they drip along the speakers, then the crackle of needles on vinyl, metallic scratches, there's much that is blatantly artificial that even an inexperienced ear would notice.
But even cursed rockers can love "Archangel", (maybe not, but I hope) which envelops in the hypnotic formula: "Holding you / Let it be alone... let it be alone... loving you / Kissing you / Tell me I belong... tell me I belong..." A bitter love.
The sounds of "Archangel" remain as "Near Dark" begins, fully meeting the dub audience's demands.
"Etched Headplate", 6 minutes of alternating growth between vocalizations, leaves something unfinished inside, a missed implosion, a cascade of sounds awaited in vain in the last seconds, which remains splendid nonetheless.
"Dog Shelter" is thus ambient, just like "Endorphin" which, however, is much more. A lunar environment, a step away from emptiness.
"Raver" closes by invoking and echoing the house music that once was.
From dark, post-industrial London, now a glimpse of rebirth can be seen.
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By gabbox
To me, it seems the best existing attempt to translate the spirit of these times into sound form.
For me, listen after listen, this is the record of the year 2007 without question.
By idealbeys
"Untrue could be cataloged as a profoundly dub album... it is precisely the element of depth... the cornerstone of this work."
"We pray that this dreamlike journey may never end, afterwards would be oblivion."
