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At times, they've flown too close to rock pomposity for comfort but, at its best, listening to the Young Gods is still a purely visceral experience. Over the years the grinding loops and samples that originally made Young Gods sound both decadent and self-destructive have been chained to more fluid techno rhythms and reduced in stature. With Second Nature, the space remaining has been taken up by an edgy electronic noise, like the spiky shards and burning embers of hell's fires discarded from singer Franz Treichler's ambient Heaven Deconstruction. "Lucidogen", the first single and opener to this, their seventh album, i
At times, they've flown too close to rock pomposity for comfort but, at its best, listening to the Young Gods is still a purely visceral experience. Over the years the grinding loops and samples that originally made Young Gods sound both decadent and self-destructive have been chained to more fluid techno rhythms and reduced in stature. With Second Nature, the space remaining has been taken up by an edgy electronic noise, like the spiky shards and burning embers of hell's fires discarded from singer Franz Treichler's ambient Heaven Deconstruction. "Lucidogen", the first single and opener to this, their seventh album, is an elemental energy rush, Treichler's wide-eyed appeal to the ecstatic inner nature of man to overturn the gods of concrete and steel against a torrent of techno feedback that crackles and sparks like an electrical storm. Treichler expands his macro/micro vision and explores further avenues of sense invasion on the molecular love song "Astronomic" and the brooding techno of "The Sound In Your Eyes". "Toi Du Mode" boasts a deep, dubby bassline and builds slowly like old-school progressive house, as Treichler repeats, mantra-like, "They can't take a way our silence". Overall, Second Nature feels as if the Young Gods have grown up into responsible adults with restless, yearning spirits. And there remains a glimmer of hope. --Chris Campion
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Manufacturer: Intoxygene
Release date: 15 November 2001
EAN: 3760019320083
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