‘Centres’ is housed in what is surely one of the most baffling and most depressingly industrial covers in history. It’s not just that it resembles an illustration from ‘Machinery Monthly’, but more than that, the composition is terrible and the image begs the questions ‘what’s the point?’ and ‘What is it saying?’.
The musical contents really doesn’t tie in with the cover art, either. ‘Centres’ isn’t a work of bleak industrial dark ambient, but an entirely forgettable example of the most depressingly mediocre dance music. It’s not even chewing gum for the ears. Understated and chilled, it’s supposed to be uplifting but instead it just kind of noodles along, echo-drenched vocals drifting over an Akai snare, sleek bongo beats and a soft bass that doesn’t really do anything. ‘Ayran Gifbek Mersi’ could have been a lost New Order track, but instead clambers up its own arse and emerges some terrible 90s style bilge.
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Turgid, soulless, characterless, there really isn’t anything to recommend this release. Maybe the cover’s more fitting than I first thought.
Urban Homes Online
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