NEL& JP - Zelfbeeld van Denaldie (Digital) (Self-released) Soms wordt een mens verrast. Soms vinden mensen elkaar en is de magie compleet. Twee zielen die elkaar vinden en elkaar dan ook wederzijds bezwangeren. De één met punkpoëzie,de ander met een muzikale bagage en feeling voor de betere muziek.Het is het verhaal van Nel Mertens en JPDe Brabander.Logischerwijs kwam er de eerste single. Zelfbeeld van Denaldie. Stevige bassen, een dansbaar ritme.Woorden die snijden, want Nel schuwt het keet schoppen niet in haar teksten. Over het dagelijkse leven in al zijn absurditeit. Over maatschappelijke realiteit, over de liefde, het ego… Allemaal geserveerd met een muzikaal sausje waar je méér van wil.Zelfbeeld van Denaldie is een stevige postpunksong.Het heeft alles: dansbaar, tekstueel pakkend,waarbij de woorden je genadeloos in het gezicht worden geslagen, tempo, zuinige gitaartjes, ritmes om op los te gaan. [JB] NFD -Trinity (EP(Digital)) (Gothic Citadel Records) Know what to expect: drawn-out songs with many changing atmospheres and tempo changes.‘Surrender To MyWill (The Demon and The Witch)’ guarantees almost 9 minutes of enjoyable gothic rock entertainment at the outset.Out of the silence this song emerges with an nice intro.Synths and an entertaining synth melody roll out the red carpet for the pertinent guitars. Sturdy heavy guitars.Then follows ‘To Find My Heaven’.A song with the same ingredients, resulting in the same kind of finger licking Gothic Rock.And even more epic lashes with ‘Static On My Soul’, which is a great dragging song. Perfect for smokeshrouded dancing people with pointed boots. Again good for about 6 minutes entertainment,Wide-spun, extremely dark and with dangerously roaring guitars.NFD has also included two alternate versions of ‘Surrender to My Will: the No Mercy version’ as well as the ‘Original Sin’ version. Nice guitar song but in my opinion not adding much value to this release. The same goes for the alternative version ‘To Find My Heaven' that is only captivating because of the great guitar solo work. Nothing more, nothing less … NFD is back! NFD breathes Gothic rock of the best kind. [JB] CUT - Dead City Nights (CD / Vinyl / Digital) It seems like, for bands like The Cut it's easy to stay in all time creative mode.You can go to a record store and pick any of their records.Clearly recorded.Perfectly played.And quite often, perfectly representing all the best qualities of a band.'Dead City Nights' is the case when a punk band gets ambitious to get outside of the ageless box of one genre. They don't pretend to follow only Fat Mike's variation of punk rock but take everything from everywhere.Whether these are garagy tonalities of the guitar interplay or some colouring of ska,textural changes and barely heard tonalities ofmath rock.With the help of the new drummer,Tony Booza, the trio managed to reach out a strong and uncompromising result, within the aesthetics of Italian horror movies.This albumwon't break the walls down but definitely would keep all the monsters outside! [DV] PLASTIKSTROM - Eskalation (CD / Vinyl / Digital) (Young & Cold Records) The title song takes a rippling start as if it was a minimal electro track.When the melody and bone-dry rhythms make themselves known,we already get the first nice stomper. Even though it is far from old school, it still juggles and balances on the edge of solid EBM.With the track 'M.K.O'. the roof really comes off completely for the first time. Variety is a trade mark of Plastikstrom.'Gipfelstürmer'thumps imperturbably strong and carries some dark electro DNA in it.'Atmen' is also one of those tracks that makes you wanna wander happily around, exploring the dance floor.Abit more relaxed and full of bombast is also allowed.'LetzteWorte'sounds like the title suggests. Progressive.The previous single 'Tanz Allein' seduces you with a very catchy, addictivemelody.Mathias'voice sounds threatening like'Grosny'taken fromBeton GegenAngst. And if it is allowed to be a bit more presumptuous, then we get dark wave like 'Labyrinth'. Or minimal synths like in 'Schüsse'. They do it seemingly effortlessly. Discover it for yourself because it is more than worth getting to know this band if you didn't know them before! [JB] www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be - 12 - Read full reviews on http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/reviews/
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