Coming on like Daft Punk but more ferocious, EVIL NINE have an acerbic line in electro that would slip nicely into a DJ set. ‘The Power’ is built around a bass-line that floats around the brown noise when played at decibels. That it goes nowhere only becomes apparent towards the end, when the catchy but stereotypical hook starts to grate slightly. It’s a prolonged exercise of a song which loses momentum and limps out at the end.
‘The Heat’ is a combination of 70’s cop show cheese and SNES driving game music. It’s an uncomfortable retro excursion that is less appealing than the title track. ‘The Night’ continues the bass and disingenuous keys approach, this time in a slightly more lively style. The fatal flaw with all of these songs is that they sound like background music from old television programmes, or the backing track to remixes of Culture Beat and The Real McCoy.
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I think technology has progressed too far for this to be considered impressive. There is very little to these songs, and certainly nothing that wasn’t achieved by eighties synthesizers.
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