Reviewed by Eric Saeger
The endless dichotomy in the goth-metal world continues, with most bands (are we still supposed to call one-man and two-man operations “bands”?) offering catchy but disposable tunes and the rest sacrificing melody at the altar of whiz-bang android noise. This Italian duo leans more toward the latter, even if their next-gen cyber-dance sound can be fascinating. The songs are too contrived to ever get them off the B list but it’s nice to know they’re out there. They know what good tunes are supposed to sound like, don’t get me wrong (there’s a cover of Björk’s ‘Army of Me’ on here), but the acid test is dispensing with the ProTools plug-ins for 5 seconds, chilling it down a hair and seeing what melodies the singer can concoct. Toward this, ‘Resin’ ambles along like a Volkswagen-sized spider but eventually offers nothing more than a microwaving of the chorus from Gravity Kilss’s ‘Guilty’, so that settles that.
Grade: B-
