Not many bands
will stick the same songs on three different CDs and have their musical careers live to tell about it. Mostly you’ll
find that with ‘70’s and ‘80’s Punk bands [i.e. Bad Religion, Peter and the Test Tube Babies…
ect.]; and you can’t forget the bomb that Linkin Park
put out in 2002 called Reanimation.
But I am not here to talk
about old Punk bands or crappy Linkin Park
albums. I am here to talk about a French sensation [in their own right] called Waiting For Words.
I reviewed their first CD
A Walk Through The Night a little over a year ago and it fared pretty decently.
I was hooked on Walk because it reminded me so much of Depeche Mode, Joy Division,
New Order, The Cure and other bands that were around before I was born. And for those of you who don’t know me personally,
I don’t give out that label often because Darkwave-Synth-Pop is one of my favorite genres of music.
So when I was told I would
get to review their newest CDs A Mix Through The Night Vol. 1&2, I Was ecstatic
since I had been looking forward to new material from this band.
Well, it’s not completely
new, but it is totally different.
What they’ve done is
taken the songs from the first CD [A Walk Through The Night] and put them in a
whole different context. They’ve got new remixes, new beats, new instrumentation, but it’s still the same song.
That’s the beauty of
Darkwave-Synth-Pop, you can rearrange a song until it doesn’t even sound like its original product, yet it still has
the same great feel that the original composition of the song did.
That’s the same feeling
I got when I listened to both of these new CDs. None of them sound exactly alike, yet they’re all the same in their
own way. In making CDs like this, redundancy would have been the main problem to overcome; but they tackled that gracefully
bringing a new feel and sound to each of the songs.
Me personally, I fell in
LOVE with the first CD [and if you know me, I don’t say I’m “in
love” with things too often]. And my love for Walk carried over to these
CDs too. Now if you had a chance to hear the first one, and for some reason or another didn’t like it, don’t pick
this one up. You’ll waste your time and the bands’. If you didn’t get the chance to hear the first one,
but you like bands like Joy Division, Dirty Vegas, Depeche Mode, The Cure, ect. this CD is worth checking out for yourself.
And now for the final rating.
Out of five stars, I give this CD a 4¾. It was different, it stood out, and to travel back to the eighties… it was rad!
Now go give it a listen you
Batcaver. [thanks for that one from http://www.inthe80s.com/glossary.shtml]
Later gators,
Mandee X(
