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Artisti: Kreuzweg Ost |
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Kaikkea muuta kuin keskeinen julkaisu. Tylsä ja itseään
toistava. Jiituomas |
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The Austrian group Kreuzweg Ost falls on
its second album into all the same pits as it did on its abysmally awful
debut (Iron Avantgarde, 2001), but not nearly as badly.
In theory the style they say they are following ("making musical
translations of various movies dealing with military or religios topics";
typo from the original, not mine) is interesting, but the problem is that
they never reach it. The music sounds like it's been made out of sampled
material processed and slightly expanded on a PC, and thus feels cheap
and staged. The real problem, however, is in the use of speech samples.
There are far, far too many of those. On this album there has been a better
selection of what's being used, but this has unfortunately resulted in
the same clips being looped over and over again until they're utterly
boring. All of the tracks on the album (excluding two) are over six minutes
long, and each of those - except Rasputin - repeats one
emphasized text all the way. The clips are quite long, but the feel of
over-repetition is still very much there.
Beneath the constant speech are melody structures that contain just enough good ideas to make this album more a disappointment than an annoyance. With more consideration, Kreuzweg Ost could make something quite powerful and even beautiful. Both Die Legion and especially Eiserne Menschen show that the potential exists. As it is, this record leaves me saddened. Its tracks are catchy as hell, yet more or less just irritate when they stay in your head. And the low quality of this material is even more obvious when it is compared to the two other neo-classical albums the label published at the same time. This is far behind both HERR and especially Kriegsfall-U. Not at all the essential album it is presented as. Boring
and repetitive. Jiituomas |