Search - Plastic Noise Experience :: -196 C

Traditionally sparse industrial-dance vein (a la Front 242)

Mr. Paul J. Abramason | 01/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"-196°C is the band's first U.S. album, drawing

together two previous releases. Many of these songs

are in the traditionally sparse industrial-dance vein

(a la Front 242) but they truly excel when they move

outside this framework. "Dream Destructor" and

"Synthesis" are slower sinuous and infinitely more

threatening. There is a sense of something evil

stalking you in the dark. "Visage de Plastique" with

its conventional Ultravox feel is unintentionally

sensual - not industrial, but hard-edged synth-pop.

But the best is "Frozen Masses" , a dance piece filled

with slowly moving synthetic chords, a strongly

Kraftwerkian theme and computerized voices."