Modern Horror is the third album by Vision Video who are part of the music scene in Athens Georgia. They are Dusty Gannon (AKA Goth Dad) and Emily Fredock with Ryan Houchens on drums and produced by Ben Allen at Maze Studios, Atlanta and mixed by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road London.
The album opens with the title track Modern Horror a thought-provoking goth dance floor filler, they are overloaded with information looking for a way through the malaise, wondering when any of the lying thieving politicians will get to pay for the crimes they commit. They feel their own dreams are dead already, no matter what they do they will always fall through the cracks.
Dead Gods have hungry eyes trying to survive all the callousness, hoping to avoid the shallow graves Dead Gods lie in. the church organ goes the full gothic horror movie in a Depeche Mode way, with Boy being resurrected for the guitar line, in as tight a vest as they can manage.
Sign Of The Times is swirling angry and bitter twisted dancefloor goth, how can things have got this bad.
Balaclava Kiss is for the generation of kids who go round in permanent hoodies and balaclavas trying to keep their anonymity in a camera crazed world, while sounding like early Killing Joke this just needs more of a monster bassline.
Normalized is a song for anyone whose suffered a no-knock warrant search, how has this been normalized, wasn't that the behaviour of communist nations, terror unfolds, they never forget to make sure you can dance to the message they deliver.
Living Dead isn't about the film, more like what it's been like to live through the last few years, just marking time, the world around you falls apart, or just goes mad, a thumper of a beat allows you to sing along with them.
Haunt Your Dreams is seductively whispered by Emily in between the verses as Dusty see through all the lies at the heart of the mess we are in, with an almost Big Country style guitar line that thankfully has much more modern drumming attached to it.
Let Go Of Time give in and fall deeply in love with them, find a way to happiness in the saddest of times, let go and find your way through.
Never Enough can it ever be enough, all you do is take and never give back, the longing and edge of despair is never far away, over a nicely elastic synth line that may have you bouncing along to this.
In My Side (Modern Horror Version) and they have been knifed and are dealing with the pain and feelings of betrayal that led to this point against a gloriously dark guitar line they gasp for breath hoping to survive.
The album closes with Stay, that is not a cover of Bowie or any other songs of this title but is a dark paean to someone suffering from PTSD, trying to avoid committing suicide, hoping they have the right friends to help them recover and get to a better place.
Whatever you do don't give in, Stay here and carry on enjoying great modern Goth darkwave albums like this one.
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