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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Ill give this album 5 stars, not because I feel it is one of the most profound albums ive ever heard etc but because it pure and simply makes me happy... I can't get enough of it, it's fun (yay fun Goth!) once I got over some of the darn funny lyrics and gave in trying to pretend that I dont like 8o's euro pop sounding male vocals... which ofcourse I do...I fell in love with pretty much all of the songs. Its a great album to put on when you're getting ready to go out and Rock at the weekends (infact it's a great album to go running to but i guess that isn't good rock and roll credentials eh?!) Standout tracks for me are 'Automatic Lover' which just puts you in the mood to shake your ass for the whole album:), 'Super Drive'... wow a beautiful, happy tune about a french girl (and yes the lyrics really do go "He put on his shirt knowing he's pert".) 'Let you down'... dump your bloke in style with this great disco rock anthem!!! and 'Flickerlight'... is absolutely excellent... even though the line "if you like to check him check him" sounds FAR too scarily like "if you like to chicken chicken"... but hey to a song like that even chicken would be good!! All in all its excellent, an album that will get you up bopping in your best PVC and wishing you too were up on stage singing 'chicken chicken'...
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Obviously with T.O.T's new electropop-metal direction now well established, this wasn't as much of a shock as the first time I heard ['mju:zik]. Indeed this album is really just a continuation and further refinement of the new style. It's an improvement though, which when you consider my rating for the previous album is saying something and I'm pretty sure that 'Album of the Year' status beckons (and it's barely March!).
As ever, Liv Kristine Espanees voice is simply beautiful and crushes any negative feelings you might have about Raymond's slightly strange vocal contributions. She is truly one of those singers who makes anything sound gorgeous and frankly (as some of the lyrics are...tainted by accentual problems - see 'Glimmerlight', and no it doesn't say 'Do you like to CHICKEN, CHICKEN!) this is a good thing otherwise T.O.T. could possibly be consigned to the loweer echelons and written off as a hopeless euro-popmetal joke.
Of course some people will rue the day they took off their black clothes and stopped being Metal-Goth's with an 'All About Eve' fixation, but personally I think it was the best move they ever
made.
As ever, Liv Kristine Espanees voice is simply beautiful and crushes any negative feelings you might have about Raymond's slightly strange vocal contributions. She is truly one of those singers who makes anything sound gorgeous and frankly (as some of the lyrics are...tainted by accentual problems - see 'Glimmerlight', and no it doesn't say 'Do you like to CHICKEN, CHICKEN!) this is a good thing otherwise T.O.T. could possibly be consigned to the loweer echelons and written off as a hopeless euro-popmetal joke.
Of course some people will rue the day they took off their black clothes and stopped being Metal-Goth's with an 'All About Eve' fixation, but personally I think it was the best move they ever
made.
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3.5 out of 5 stars
19 reviews
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Abandoning the past - again!
18 April 2002
By David Parker
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Format:Audio CD
I guess Theatre of Tragedy decided that they had nothing more to say in the world of gothic hard rock after "Aegis" and did a complete 180 with the last album "Musique", much to the dismay of most of their hard-core fans. Gone were the dark, gothic epics mixing elements of Type O Negative with operatic female vocals, replaced with a sort of Euro-electro-industro sound, completely abandoning the deep, growly male vocals of the earlier albums, and relying more on Liv Kristine's singing (a wise choice there!) - all over a more programmed, keyboard-heavy sound. That continues pretty much unabated on this latest offering, although adding a few Garbage-like textures throughout this time. Unfortunately, what TOT seems to forget is that changing sounds means nothing if the songs are forgettable, and while much of this album and "Musique" is enjoyable, it's also quickly forgotten. Bands like Flowing Tears, Paradise Lost and Tiamat are proving that you can experiment within the "gothic" genre and still remain pretty much true to form. Those bands are constantly shifting their sound, but keep putting out great albums. It's too bad that a leader like TOT couldn't see fit to do the same.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get over it!
6 Feb 2005
By Michael
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Format:Audio CD
There is nothing worse than a band that keeps playing the same old style of music without every changing or trying something new. Worse than that are the fans who complain because they can't handle the change. As a musician let me tell that never trying something different is soooo boring. Kudos to TOT for this album and Musique before it. The music still rocks just in a different style (ala Curve, Garbage) Sorry miopic metal fans. As much as I love earlier TOT, and I do, these albums are still superior to most music out there.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
It actually deserves 3.5 stars,
9 Aug 2005
By 8er Martin
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Format:Audio CD
I must confess that I loved first 3 TOT albums and hated with my whole black heart Musique, actually I thought it was the most horrible thing I'd ever heard and when I heard the single "Let You Down" I thought this would be another Musique. I've been listening to this CD all day long, and it's begun to grow on me. Of course it has nothing to do with Aegis, Velvet Darkness or TOT's debut album, those were 3 masterpieces, but Assembly is not as bad as it was Musique, this one sounded better produced, music was far more creative than Musique's, and even though lyrics here are still a bit silly, some of them deserve to be read. There some good moments on this album (Superdrive, which sounds very much like Garbage's Run Baby Run, Starlit and Envision, for example). Automatic Lover has a very good melody, the only thing I found disgusting were the lyrics, too repetitive, and too focused on creating a catchy song that you can sing along with your friends as you drive your car and drink vodka. Let You Down is also good after all, it has something that i can't describe and that simply made me fall in love with the song, despiting the bad impression I had when I first heard it.
Another nice song is Flickerlight, again too Garbage-ish, but still good.
Basically this is not an excellent album, but it still has some good things on it and certainly was very much better than Musique. I'd recommend that you get a few songs (or even the whole album) from internet, and if you like the songs enough, then go to buy it (that's what I did, but I'm not so sure yet about buying it or not).
And, in case you find this really disgusting, you might want to check out Liv Kristine's new band "Leaves' Eyes", whose albums Lovelorn and Vinland Saga are very good (specially Lovelorn, which is already my favorite).
Another nice song is Flickerlight, again too Garbage-ish, but still good.
Basically this is not an excellent album, but it still has some good things on it and certainly was very much better than Musique. I'd recommend that you get a few songs (or even the whole album) from internet, and if you like the songs enough, then go to buy it (that's what I did, but I'm not so sure yet about buying it or not).
And, in case you find this really disgusting, you might want to check out Liv Kristine's new band "Leaves' Eyes", whose albums Lovelorn and Vinland Saga are very good (specially Lovelorn, which is already my favorite).
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