| Empty / Surfacing |
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| Album: | Surfacing | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Empty | Added: | May 2010 | |
| Label: | Aphotic Audio | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-10-03 | Pull Date: | 2010-12-05 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 21 | Nov 14 | Nov 7 | Oct 31 | Oct 24 | Oct 17 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 16, 2010: | Nothing Rhymes with SILVER Forgotten Dreams | 4. | Oct 28, 2010: | And Other Useful Bibles Forgotten Dreams | |
| 2. | Nov 09, 2010: | Nothing Rhymes With Smorange Ignite | 5. | Oct 20, 2010: | panic!~@$% Ignite | |
| 3. | Nov 02, 2010: | Door Hinge Rhymes with Orange This Regret | 6. | Oct 13, 2010: | panic This Regret |
| Album Review |
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| tony echo* Reviewed 2010-09-23 | ||
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Empty is an industrial/electro band out of Australia. CD is dark, brooding, industrial, brilliant. enveloping, ambient, and danceable all at once. FCCs: none detected Try: 1-4, 9, *=liked, **=loved 1.** 3:02 mid/fast frenetic instrumental. dark and enveloping synth keys and string. upscale compex drum loops. Ends with a ringing siren that makes you think the buildup is coming, only to fade away. 2.** 4:57 chill/mid industrial. heavy, pounding bassline, sharp, complex drum loops. big, New Wave synth keys are haunting and sustained in some places and flutter in others. gritty, echoing, forlorn m vox evoke Trent Reznor. someone will make a ton of money remixing this. 3.** 6:25 fast, industrial vocals over drum-n-bass rhythms. haunting, dark sustained synth keys. ready for the club! 4.** 5:46 chill/mid, slower and more deliberate than #3. epic, smooth synth strings lead into dark bassline and electro synth keys. m vox are more distorted and subdued here. very cool. 5.* 5:00 chill/mid, classic 80s industrial keys over enveloping bass, less beat-focused than other tracks, although drum loops become more prominent toward the end. lyrics leave a bit to be desired. 6.** 4:29 fast, energetic, some trance/progressive influences with short chill intervals where the beat drops out. opens w/ dark synth keys leading into classic 80s industrial lyrics and processed m vox that are melodic and way less gritty than the other tracks. scattered uplifting strings. big winner. 7.* 4:43 chill and deliberate. very NIN. simple, dark, overwhelming synth keys, industrial drum loops; dark, hoarse m vox. keys become more melodic halfway thru. 8.* 6:02 chill, ambient, deliberate. tension between melancholy m vox and bass vs blissful synth keys/strings. 9.** 5:29 fast d-n-b drum loops that drop out in places in favor of upbeat keys. highly distorted, robotic m vox. keys range from dark to upbeat/progressive/Sasha-esque. 10.** 5:30 fast, methodical, melodic/progressive in some places and dark/industrial in others, uplifting overall. classic industrial/new wave sound, synth keys and rhythms recall New Order. loved it. 11.* 6:11 slow, methodical, dark, evil. robotic, dark m vox. goth/industrial. enveloping synth keys and pounding rhythm. wear dark clothes and pile on the white face makeup. 12. 5:05 chill pace, tries to be epic, unsatisfying. 13. 7:01 chill. opens with beautiful piano riff. m/f duet vox are sensitive, r&b-influenced, minimally processed, and overpowered by the instrumentals. unfortunately winds up sounding like justin timberlake and a low-end tina turner singing over an industrial beat. 14.** 4:21 slow and percussion-free. late-night ambient. sustained synth notes with sampled m vox here and there. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Deprivation | 8. | Locked | |||
| 2. | Never Get To You | 9. | Forgotten Dreams | |||
| 3. | The Centre | 10. | This Regret | |||
| 4. | Drift | 11. | Recognition | |||
| 5. | Inside | 12. | Breathless | |||
| 6. | Ignite | 13. | Frames | |||
| 7. | Underground | 14. | Internal |