Second Nature

Artist: Young Gods Label: Ipecac Recordings Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 689230003625 EAN: 0689230003625 ASIN: B00007L9NU Release Date: 2003-01-28

Second Nature

Tracks:

1. Lucidogen
2. Supersonic
3. Laisser Couler (Le Son)
4. Astronomic
5. Attends
6. In The Otherland
7. Stick Around
8. The Sound In Your Eyes
9. Toi Du Monde
10. Love 2.7

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Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Young Gods at its best.......2004-01-20

And ... for my american co-reviewer, two tricks for your general culture :
- Switzerland happens not to be in France and thus its inhabitants are called ... the Swiss
- some of the lyrics are not in bad English but ... in French.

Cheers,

getting older.......2003-08-08

psychedelic sampled industrial??? well, good music........2003-06-29

Well, to the point. I bought this album, which is their latest so far. And when I started listening to it I was instantly hooked. It is industrial if we accept labels, but it's not so easily categorised. It has something of the psychedelic bands of the 70's (not so much in this album as in other albums but oh well).
They basically work with sampled guitars which usually make a dense sonic wall, dynamic electronic basses and good beats that may change several times within a song. They don't bore me at all, cos unlike other "industrial" bands I don't want to mention, they touch very different moods and tempos with their songs.

Second nature is a very good industrial album. The guitar and electronic parts are very balanced, but not in a fight or a clean partition (50% guitars, 50% electronics), but instead they form together a very intelligent body of sound. Oh words words words. Sorry, to the music.

The album starts with 2 industrial bombs, 'Lucidogen' and 'Supersonic'. This guy knows how to use his voice. He is agressive but not in a hey-my-throat-seems-to-be-swallowing-nails way (let's think KMFDM, FLA, Wumpscut...), but more in a rockish way. In fact, I think The Young Gods is a rock band, just... experimental and conscious of their sonic experimentation.

But not all the songs are bombs, that's what usually makes me bore some KMFDM or Ministry, that all the songs sound the same (just my opinion, don't kill me). In the album we can also find more mid-tempo songs like the wonderful 'Laissez Couler' which is one of the best songs I've heard lately. Or the completely atmospheric 'Attends' or 'Toi du Monde' where the voice is lost in an electronically ambient atmosphere.

Some songs are very original for an "industrial" band, like 'Stick Around'. The most electronic song is 'The Sound in Your Eyes', whcih has one of the best electronic bass I've ever heard. They master the use of noise perfectly, giving it in perfectly observed doses (in the choruses of 'The Sound in Your Eyes' or 'Lucidogen'.

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1. Hybrid Theory ~ Linkin Park
2. Dream & Desire ~ Manuel Göttsching
3. Swedish Radio Sessions ~ The Nice
4. Each One Teach One ~ Oneida
5. Summer Holiday ~ Ian Gomm
6. Tranzophobia ~ Mega City Four
7. Assessment ~ The Beta Band
8. Why Don't We Talk About Something Else ~ Outrageous Cherry
9. SOUP ~ SOUP
10. Guitar Tribute to Motley Crue ~ Various Artists

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Divine Radiance ~ Tisziji Munoz

Jila - Save Mon. - The Imaginary Suite ~ George Lewis, Douglas Ewart

This Is Our Music ~ Ornette Coleman

Waltz for Debby ~ David Hazeltine

20 Super Sucessos V.2 ~ Jerry Adriani

Yar Kelour ~ Matlubeh

Tangos del Sur: Atilio Stampone, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists

Moments ~ Hiroko Kokubu

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