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Artist: INTO THE
HOLE
Album: Do You Want To Play With Me?
Year: 2006
In times of modern technology, people who remain old
school are becoming very rare. Luckly for the old school
fans, those old schoolers still exist and they still
dare to make old school stuff these days! The inlay of
this EP is as old school as a 7” inlay (it has the same
size) and, according to the influences of the guy behind
this project, we can expect some old school industrial
stuff on the disk that is laying inside. Old Nine Inch
Nails and some old punk influences are the main
influences for this old school project. And, to start a
biography with “My name is Alessandro Volpi and I was
born on January 10, 1982 in Morbegno (SO)” tells you
about the Italian roots of this band, but it also gives
the biography an old school attitude, don’t you think?
So now about the disc that was hidden in the old school
inlay then. The six songs that are on it are drowned in
old school thoughts, as I suspected. It’s like it brings
you back to the old school eighties and the nineties,
when we used to call the seventies stuff old school.
Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, The Sisters of Mercy, The
Cure... all these old school bands come in mind when I
hear this old school stuff. The old school tunes in ‘A
Good Game’ reminds you immidiately of Depeche Mode when
they were still modern (which means that they are old
school now) with dreamy tunes and wellfitting old school
clean vocals. ‘The Dream Of The Reality” is clearly
build on the very first influence ever of ‘Into The Hole’.
To use your very first influence ever is pretty old
school, and it gets even double old school if the old
school influence is an old school band. Yes, I am
talking about Nine Inch Nails, and specially the old
school record named ‘The Fragile’. Some not to complex
electro to keep it all old school is the main stuff of
this old school track, and some atmospheric though old
school guitarwork turn this song into a decent old
school one. Not dusty at all, no, just old school.
‘Done’ is the ‘past’ version of ‘to do’, so you could
even call this track title old school already! Well,
that promises something extra old school for the song
don’t you think? Well, to be honest, it is not as old
school as I expected. The sampling sounds a bit like ‘Collapse’,
which is the most old school song of a band called
Kubrick, but Kubrick is a bit less old school than Into
The Hole because they play it more faster. The guitar
sound on this track is very raw, which can be pretty old
school as well. ‘Where Am I Going?’ brings the little
old school punk influences that were mentioned in the
biography to the front. Some catchy, though old school,
powerful riffs are added here and there, and they bring
the old school industrial drumming clearly to the
background. The most powerful song of this old school
record! ‘Without Pity’ brings you back to the old school
NIN influences, with a little, old school touch of some
old school gothic rock bands like The Sisters of Mercy
and The Cure. Take a little slice of the old schoolers
of Depeche Mode (sliced with a rusty knife of course, to
keep it all old school) and you’ll get the idea of this
old school track. This track remains pretty danceable
too! Like every progressive album, every old school
album has a last track too. ‘Useless’ is definitely not
a useless track, because it turned out to be my
favourite track of this record. No old school stuff in
it? Of course there is, it’s old school as Hell,
although this old school track turns out to be a pretty
catchy one. I cannot keep these old school electronic
loops out of my head for some time already, and the
guitarwork gives the song a powerful, still old school
but also powerful, attitude. A (olds-)cool end of an old
school record if you ask me! Some final words about this
old school one? Well, most of the times old school means
also easy listening, and I know this sounds cliché. For
this release, this very same old school rule can be used
as an explanation to describe this old school record in
just a few words (well, next to ‘old school’ of
course!). If you dare to consider yourself as an old
school fan and you dig (some of) the old school bands I
mentioned in this old school review, then go and buy
this old school record you old schooler! Because this
old school stuff is very decent and interesting! Oh, and
if you think that I used the word “old school” too much
in this review, well then better get modern fast,
heretic!
Vote: 75 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. A Good Game
02. The Dream Or The
Reality
03. Done
04. When Am I Going?
05. Without Pity
06. Useless
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