Saints Of Eden - Shameless
Ok come on ye kids in boots trying to look taller than daddy, all you kids spending more time on your weekend make-up than the most sought after catwalk models, and last but not least, all ye in corsettes to hide those extra pounds, here is a winner for your generation as ye prepare to stroll the streets of NY East, Camden Town, Sydney Central, & all other meccas of the scary black so industrial.
Enter Shameless, an EP consisting of a good title track and an even more killer The Price Ya Gotta Pay on one hand, and sadly 2 other tracks of lesser weight on the other. The responsible are UK formation SAINTS OF EDEN, here presenting us with all ideas that work on a dancefloor. Electronic beats, hip-hop vocal raps, digitally morphed vocals meeting the oh so romantic new wave yawns of yesteryear, heavy metal guitars, et al ….. everything in 4/4 timing so the kids wearing stilettos instead of boots do not risk to fall over :) In other words, this is music that has endlessly been proved to function before, yet on the other hand comes across too repetitive to this ear sick of bands trying to capitalize.
And I am so blunt with my words as with only 4 songs, and this not being their debut, I would at least expect a bit more from who promotes themselves as “urban rap meets underground electronica, hybridised in a gothic veil”. Check it out if you want to explore a “wow” I did not…..maybe.
Enter Shameless, an EP consisting of a good title track and an even more killer The Price Ya Gotta Pay on one hand, and sadly 2 other tracks of lesser weight on the other. The responsible are UK formation SAINTS OF EDEN, here presenting us with all ideas that work on a dancefloor. Electronic beats, hip-hop vocal raps, digitally morphed vocals meeting the oh so romantic new wave yawns of yesteryear, heavy metal guitars, et al ….. everything in 4/4 timing so the kids wearing stilettos instead of boots do not risk to fall over :) In other words, this is music that has endlessly been proved to function before, yet on the other hand comes across too repetitive to this ear sick of bands trying to capitalize.
And I am so blunt with my words as with only 4 songs, and this not being their debut, I would at least expect a bit more from who promotes themselves as “urban rap meets underground electronica, hybridised in a gothic veil”. Check it out if you want to explore a “wow” I did not…..maybe.
1. Shameless
2. Ice
3. The Price Ya Gotta Pay
4. So Near
