Collide - Some Kind of Strange
Mar. 22nd, 2004 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharplittleteethDegree of procrastination is not relative to difficulty of the task.
Case in point: I've been meaning to pick up a Collide CD ever since I heard their remix of Front Line Assembly's Predator. Except none of the local goth shops stocked it.
This is the 21st Century. That shouldn't present an obstacle. We have internet shopping now. But I kept putting it off. Degree of procrastination is not relative to difficulty of the task.
Until yesterday, when I went in to pick up my Covenant tickets from Heartland, and saw they had Collide's Some Kind Of Strange in stock. So... review time.
Collide sound a lot like Delerium would, if they had Curve's Toni Halliday on vocals. Angelic female vocals, trip-hop beats, and weird-but-inoffensive industiral noisey bits in the middle. And like Delerium, Collide are a bit too floaty and mid-tempo and nice for their own good.
Which is a pity. Because the opening tracks are rather good. Still stuck in a mid-tempo crawl, but punched up with some complex programming, some heavy guitar work, and guest drum spots by cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy and Danny Carey of Tool. Around the halfway mark though, the band lose their focus and everything dissolves into a swirly blur.
I can't help feeling there's a really great album buried under all the layers of shimmering guitar and Middle-Eastern beats. It just needs a good hard remix to find it.
Case in point: I've been meaning to pick up a Collide CD ever since I heard their remix of Front Line Assembly's Predator. Except none of the local goth shops stocked it.
This is the 21st Century. That shouldn't present an obstacle. We have internet shopping now. But I kept putting it off. Degree of procrastination is not relative to difficulty of the task.
Until yesterday, when I went in to pick up my Covenant tickets from Heartland, and saw they had Collide's Some Kind Of Strange in stock. So... review time.
Collide sound a lot like Delerium would, if they had Curve's Toni Halliday on vocals. Angelic female vocals, trip-hop beats, and weird-but-inoffensive industiral noisey bits in the middle. And like Delerium, Collide are a bit too floaty and mid-tempo and nice for their own good.
Which is a pity. Because the opening tracks are rather good. Still stuck in a mid-tempo crawl, but punched up with some complex programming, some heavy guitar work, and guest drum spots by cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy and Danny Carey of Tool. Around the halfway mark though, the band lose their focus and everything dissolves into a swirly blur.
I can't help feeling there's a really great album buried under all the layers of shimmering guitar and Middle-Eastern beats. It just needs a good hard remix to find it.
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Date: 2004-03-21 05:22 pm (UTC)I dont think its on that album. sounds a little different
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Date: 2004-03-21 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-21 11:45 pm (UTC)Your icon. *dies*
It's the Wee Little Puppet Man!
*convulses on the floor, laughing*
You know I'm stealing it right?
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Date: 2004-03-22 02:29 pm (UTC)oh you may like to look at my mood icons on my lj too ;p
I want, I want, I want...
Date: 2004-03-22 10:16 pm (UTC)I like that one, oh and that one... ohmigod that's soo cute.. oh and that one is cool... etc