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Artist: VIRGINS O.R PIGEONS
Album: Place No Reliance
Year: 2007
A band from Greece, released by a label from Japan,
reviewed by a Spanish/Dutch guy on a Dutch webzine...
you don't hear that too often. Virgins O.R Pigeons is
the Greek band in this story, released by the Japanese
Cure label. Would I be the reviewer in this story maybe...?
Virgins O.R Pigeons exists out of three members, all
with a past in different other musical projects. In
2002, they started experimenting with electronic sounds
and noises and thus the birth was given to this project.
In 2007, it resulted in the 'Place No Reliance' release,
which is the debut full-lenght of this band.
The release starts with a spoken word intro called 'Hypnosis',
to be followed by the danceable tunes of 'Pestillence'.
It's a dark electro track with marching beats,
recogniseable synthlines and distorted vocal works. 'Let
Them Die' opens with future pop influenced keylines, but
when the vocal lines are added it evolves slowly into a
dark electro track again - still with the future pop
influences though (in the synthlines and in the
programming works). The chorus has surprisingly cool
clean vocals, which have a certain amount of catchyness
in them. 'On Virgins Or Pigeons' comes up next. It has
excellent instrumental parts, and powerful vocalized
parts. It's one of the more accessable tracks, that
could do quite well on the dancefloor. 'Nasa's Lullabye'
is more cold and atmospheric. Marching beats are
accompanied by diverse FX and synth works and
recogniseable vocal lines. 'Reach Out' is probably the
biggest surprise of the record. It contains metal
guitars, dark and atmospheric clean vocals and some
modern and dark electro influenced FX works. This track
comes the closest to industrial metal of the whole album.
'State Your God' has touches of old school EBM, (dark)
electro and modern future pop sounds. It's an easy going
and danceable tune, that could fit any cyber party.
Talking about potential clubhits, 'Existe' is definitely
one as well. It is catchy, danceable, atmospheric and
very decently built, which are exceptional things. 'Life
Compressor' is an instrumental outro (with some brutal
beats!), thats followed by a more metal version of 'Let
Them Die'. It's basically a remix of the original track
plus some wicked guitars, that might sound weird in the
beginning but after a while you'll recognise the beauty
of it as well.
Well, what's there left to say in the end? Virgins O.R
Pigeons delivered a very strong release with 'Place No
Reliance', an album that's filled with potential singles
and/or club hits and some very cool surprises. Don't let
this album drown in the ocean of twelve million standard
and clichè releases if you're really in search for
something new and exciting.
Vote: 90 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Hypnosis
02. Pestilence
03. Let Them Die
04. On Virgins Or
Pigeons
05. Nasa's Lullabye
06. Reach Out
07. State Your God
08. Existe
09. Life Compressor
10. Let Them Die
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