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Review: 'APOSTILLE'
'Powerless'   

-  Label: 'Night School Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '27th April 2015'

Our Rating:
These nine dark synth-pop tunes are like a punk reincarnation of early Depeche Mode and/or missives from a nightmarish, Orwellian world.

The doom-laden atmosphere is established in the opening track,Life with the sentiments: "Life is happening to somebody else.........death will only take a minute"

This album is the solo work of Glaswegian Michael Kasparis; a DIY project released through his own label.

The mix is muddy and bass is heavy and this all fits in well with the bleak, claustrophobic mood.

Panic Attack At The Train Station is a title which speaks for itself Control ends with a menacing zombie-ish prole chant ("Take control". This ambition is also taken up in Deserter ("just want to rule with my own view").

Most impressive of all is the nine minute closing track, Slurry, which places us deep in the heart of UK's industrial underground (the hidden reverse). The narrator is of an alienated commuter who, despite the auto-suggestion ("I'm a very important person - I have a lot of work to do"), is only too aware that he is "buried in a slurry of my own creation". We've all had days like this!

Powerless is a feel good record about despair.

Apostille artist page at Night School Records website
  author: Martin Raybould

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APOSTILLE - Powerless
APOSTILLE - Powerless