NEWS   CYBERVAMPS Review from Glitter n' Black UK Webzine


The following is a review of the CyberVamps album [type: x] from the Glitter n' Black webzine from the U.K.

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Cybervamps -
Cybervamps, eh? You know where you are with a name like that. Goth and sci-fi, sex and rock n' roll, long coats, PVC and neon lights. Oh yeah.

Hit play, and whaddya get? It's Johnny Violent! No, really. Mad bugger, one billion bpm, stutter-sequencing. This can't be right.

One and a half minutes later and no, it's Type O! You know, the spooky keyboards, scuzzy guitar and slow-march bass? Hmm, still not quite what we were expecting. Is it still the same band?

On first listen, this is a very difficult album. Not bad, but seemingly disjointed; lurching from gabba to goth, electro to glam, punk to doom, wherever to anyplace else.

Somehow though, repeated spins start to reveal something else. The album begins to gel, to make sense, almost to have a message. This is the future, built on all our pasts and presents: you might not like it, you might not even understand it; just deal with it.

Imagine Wagner if he'd had access to Fender Strats and Marshall stacks. Imagine the Pistols with a cheap, vomit-proof sequencer. Imagine Sigue Sigue Sputnik if they were good. Imagine Marc Bolan living long enough to go to the Batcave. Sod it, just imagine all your musical heroes getting together in a dark castle with all the drink and drugs they can handle, a studio full of all the toys they'd ever need. And a thunderstorm outside.

Can I refer you back to the first paragraph?

www.cybervamps.net

Review By
Gothvodka
27/05/2003 12:38:56