Here we have yet another CD that refuses to play through a computer. They're becoming something of a fad. This disc, therefore, was given a spin while I stood in my kitchen making porage. Top oat-stirring anthems? Not really.
It gets off to a fairly promising start, with opening track
Aftermath featuring some cheeky early-nineties-videogame synth. The overly-distorted robot vocals are pretty off-putting, though, and the distortion fails to mask the singer's lack of talent. Reasonably fun, nothing you'd expect to fill a dancefloor. Things go a little downhill from this point, sadly.
The next track,
The Living and the Dead, features the same flat techno beat, the same crappy MC Hawking vocals, and the same niggling-feeling-that-you-ought-to-be-playing-Turrican synth. The next song goes one worse, by actually being called
New Flesh. Is there really so little pop culture to draw reference from? Apparently so.
As a vaguely apocalypse-themed concept techno album,
Last Man Standing fails spectacularly. It's too samey and dull to properly convey any sort of message, and doesn't have any new ideas to express
anyway.
Boring as plain porage. Slice a banana into it, maybe chuck in a few raisins and stir in some honey, and you might have a decent breakfast, y'know? As it is, this album's best left on the shelf.
Last Man Standing is out now (and has been for a while) on
Decadence Records.
http://fraction.cohaagen.com/
