Elm: Extreme Unspoken Tension3
Elm: Extreme Unspoken Tension3
Format: CD
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Artist: Elm
Label: Alfa Matrix
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 882951028025
Genre: Electronic
With his new 13-track "Extreme Unspoken Tension" album, Swedish veteran and one-man assault squad Peter Elm sets the bar of top notch old-school EBM with attitude one level higher and signs here a true classic Electronic Body Music album to be classified just between NITZER EBB's "That Total Age" and DAF's "Alles Ist Gut"! The opening "Redemption" directly sets the mood and plunges you in a tense, weird and menacing atmosphere à la "Clockwork Orange" lead by LAIBACH-ish martial beats and narrative vocals. Paranoia then sets in a bit deeper in your flashing mind with "Apocalypse 20160703", an even slower and almost decadent trip hop electro cut, that sucks you up like a hidden merciless dark worm. And that's exactly at that very uncomfortable moment of doubt that ELM grabs you by the throat and shakes your ass with the stomping straightforward EBM hit "Death Of The North"! And it's when you are reaching that poignant breathtaking climax that leaves us wondering what could still come next, that this roller coaster album throws you, half-suffocating, in an unexpected vertiginous fall from "Altitude 100", an intimate and viciously addictive melodic synth pop song. But the dancefloor assaults rapidly take over with the raw "Distracted", the hypnotic aggressive new club hit "Thoughtcrime" or the amazing "Switching Addictions" that is bound to become a true classic electro tune with it's refreshing GESAFFESLSTEIN meets SCHWEFELGELB meets early FRONT 242 tone. "Extreme Unspoken Tension" then makes another unpredictable u-turn and trashes you the straight and unpolished old-school EBM "War Machine" scud in the face, followed by the extremely powerful "Violent Heart" and the closing uncompromising anthemic "Smother Box" that eventually punches you knockout once for all.
Tracks:
1.1 Redemption
1.2 Apocalypse 20160703
1.3 Death of the North
1.4 Cut You Down
1.5 Deathbed Love
1.6 Mindgame
1.7 Altitude 100
1.8 Distracted
1.9 Thoughtcrime
1.10 Switching Addictions
1.11 War Machine
1.12 Violent Heart
1.13 Smother Box
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