The title of Silent Cure's album made me think I was going to be hearing an album of quality Jazz Punk, kind of No wave type stuff, instead of which this album by Silent Cure is far more Techno and synthwave and has no punk and very little jazz to my ears. Which means this Danish act have failed to live up to an intriguing album name, that ends up being far better than the actual album.
This opens with Silent Love Song that isn't as quiet as The Beatles Silence, but is a dreamy synth led ambient song with heavily treated vocals whispering into your ears.
Symphony Octobre seems to be re-working an old P.I.L. bassline into a culture clash with the synth undertow almost clashing with what's on top of it a semi skittery drum pattern and other worldly sounds that hopefully don't signal another October revolution.
In Circles To Nowhere takes a slightly annoying techno club bassline and adds some synth and other stuff to leave me wondering what it's relationship is to either Punk or Jazz as this for me is just Electronica or electronic dance music.
Settimana A Diano Marina lifts this somewhat with some very gauzy almost whispered vocals and an upbeat synth pop tune that recalls Add N To X a little bit.
Gratitude is a techno floor filler or at least it wants to be one. I am no judge of such things, but the spoken vocals that are a bit Little Fluffy Clouds help, as it's certainly at The Orb end of Techno.
So Annoyed as some quite Stina Nordenstam style vocals over a slow organ led song about how someone is So Annoyed by everything about the woman, who is singing, it could easily be a commentary on toxic masculinity, but the vocals are a bit too vague to ram the message home that we need less of that behavior, this is certainly the one song on the album I want to hear again.
Synthwave Retrospect kind of does what is say on the tin and sounds like it comes from the late 70's and was on the soundtrack to an Italian Porno movie, that was trying to sound like a bargain basement Harold Faltermayer.
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Streetlight Tales has a dark edge to it as if this should be the backing to an interview with a very down at heel street walking cheater, who does anything she has to do to get just one more hit of that stuff, as she teeters along trying to entice some John or other to hand over the cash she needs.
Neon Tears can be shed to this, as the drum and bass style skittery as a meth head in need of a fix percussion, goes over the slow long tone synths, on another long dark night of despair and hope that the promised Jazz Punk might eventually arrive.
When Souls Are Leaving takes a church organ part and adds a drum machine to it with the odd other synth sound to bid farewell to all of the recently departed.
Cyber-Punks Not Dead takes us into the world of day-glo cyber synth nosebleed Techno with no real punk leanings to me, this might sound good on a huge system with a handful of drugs hitting your brain just before it comes on, but sitting at home sober this is just annoying.
The album closes with Falling Asleep which is something this album didn't make me do, this is tonal synths and some cymbals to try to help you drift off.
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