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Cephalgy - Finde deinen Dämon |
EBM and electro is quite a popular music genre in Germany at the moment and a lot of bands have recently been formi ng up. Cephalgy is one of them and deliver with "finde deinen Dämon" an interesting piece of music that clearly aims at the gothic scene. So basically, it's music for the darker hours.
There are some clearly outstanding songs that indicate the full potential of Cephalgy. "kaltes Herz" with it's bombastic electro rythm, "mein Versprechen", featured by Ulrike Goldmann from "Say Y", a beautiful ballad of a broken heart, "deine Tränen", "deine Seele" and "finde deinen Dämon" for dancefloor interested people.
This is actually what i like most about this release: the awesome variety in instruments and composition despite of overall homogeneity. There is not really a red thread through the songs, but the atmosphere is great, "finde deinen Dämon" sounds like it was made out of one piece. I just don't understand why the title song happens to be that short. Not three minutes pass and it's over, although i personaly think it's one of the greatest songs on the whole album. For my taste it could have been twice as long. In contrast to "miles away", which torments the listener with crappy sound effects and a terribly bad composition. This is not up-to-date ebm.
However, on the other side i'm sometimes a bit torn between enthusiasm, disappointment and bore. A lot of songs just don't deliver enough diversity and fail to keep the listener interested. For future releases i'd like to see more creativity, the songs could easily gain in strength of expression and unconventional ideas. The music of cephalgy should be, regarding to the chosen topics, a more intense hearing experience. They want to sound dark, that's ok, but sometimes its just grey and boring. But certainly not all the time.
So if you're looking for a decent electro album that features beautiful violins and piano tunes along with gloomy electro beats, this release might be interesting for you. You should just not expect it to be as dancefloor oriented as the known major ebm acts. Such songs rather have to be searched than to be found. What remains is rather a beautiful set of melodies and a netful of jewels that have to be discovered between a mixture of moderate-quality songs, unfortunately. Results may vary.
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Reviewer: Tobias Weigl
Hompage: Cephalgy.de
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