List | C | Covenant | 'Dreams Of A Cryotank' CD 1994

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Theremin	4:24
2.	Replicant	4:03
3.	Shipwreck	4:47
4.	Void	4:37
5.	Hardware Requiem	4:47
6.	Shelter	4:12
7.	Wasteland	3:52
8.	Voices	4:37
9.	Edge Of Dawn	4:35
10.	Speed	5:19
11.	Cryotank Expansion	25:47
	Dawn / Noon / Dusk / Night
	Total	71:00

Comments:

This is the stomping debut album of this Swedish EBM / industrial band. Unlike many 'industrial' bands these days, this is totally devoid of distorted guitars. There are plenty of other distorted sounds and vocals, though. They may be using some genre cliches and it may not be the most inspired music I've ever heard, but for an EBM band I think they've done rather well, and it's certainly better than most other stuff out there. There is a techno angle on many of the tracks; sometimes the twisted sounds remind me a bit of Aphex Twin. They use vocal samples rather sparingly; I haven't been able to identify a single one of them. I do suspect that those warped samples on 'Replicant' may be from 'Bladerunner', since the lyrics imply a connection (from the android point of view). On one or two occasions it shows that they're Swedes, most notably on 'Hardware Requiem' which has less than perfect English pronounciation, but still better than many Swedish synth bands. The most obvious hit of the album is 'Theremin', a stomping dancey track about the stupidity of the human race and all the bad things we do to this little planet of ours. Other tracks that deserve a mentioning are 'Replicant', 'Void', 'Shelter', 'Wasteland', 'Voices', 'Edge Of Dawn' and 'Speed'. Come to think of it, most of them are good. 'Cryotank Expansion' is a rather lengthy industra-noise-ambient track, divided into four parts. Strip that track away and you've got a regular 45 minute album.

In short, a better-than-average EBM album, promising well for the future.

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