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Review: 'Sweetest Condition, The'
'Edge of the World'   

-  Album: 'Edge of the World'
-  Genre: 'Industrial'

Our Rating:
Nashville is not a place one generally associates with electro-industrial synth pop. This means that electro-industrial synth pop duo The Sweetest Condition probably stand out a mile in the heartland of country.

Leslie I Benson has a strong, clean pop voice, and Jason Reed Milner has a knack for insistent disco grooves and powerful, surging choruses. In combination, they brew a potent aural cocktail.

Yes, there are heavy hints of Depeche Mode about ‘Control’, and indeed, many of the other tracks on the album (as you might expect from an act who lifted thier name from a Depeche Mode song, as featured on 2001’s ‘Exciter’) but then equally, there’s a wide-ranging absorption of about three decades of synth-based music informing ‘Edge of the World’, and it would be something of a disservice to overemphasise any one aspect. The stomping grind of ‘Now’ evokes the spirit and sound of Pretty Hate Machine era Nine Inch Nails. ‘This Poison’ is more overtly dancey, and contrasts with the brooding pop of ‘Try’, and ‘Watch You Fall’ lands on the edge of Goldfrapp territory.

The mechanised drum beats are solid, propulsive, crisp and cut through the layered synths and processed guitar sounds. Lyrically, love and war are common themes and seemingly interchangeable, both causes of pain, regret and deep wounds. These are big songs: The Sweetest Condition create a very full sound, and ‘Edge of the World’ is a highly accomplished work with some great songs.

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  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Sweetest Condition, The - Edge of the World