Apparently, on this remixed ‘best of’ compiled from material which appeared on their first three albums, ‘Latent Anxiety again pushes the envelope, invoking Electronic Alternative Rock (EAR) excellence like it has never been applied before.’ The press release also boasts that ‘Liberation’ offers up ‘a brilliant and refreshing blend of diverse dark genres with tasteful infusions of contemporary styles.’
What ‘Liberation’ actually gives us is a supremely predictable and often cringe-inducing collection of Euro disco with an industrial dance edge. Without even entering into discussion of the atrocious lyrics – and they’re atrocious even granting some leeway for the fact that English isn’t the artist’s native language – this is bad. Corny, cliché and po-faced, it’s stodgy and monotonous and everything that detractors find embarrassing and laughable about the techno-industrial genre.
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Drawing on the tamest elements of NIN and Depeche Mode and then diluting them with ten parts water to every one part of innovation and edginess, ‘Liberation’ is unchallenging in extremis, toothless and bland. It might make like it’s so much more, but make no mistake, this is an electro-pop album. In itself that’s no crime, but the pretence is unforgivable.
The bottom line is that ‘Liberation’ is anything but liberated or liberating: a slave to genre, it’s boring and ultimately nothing more than a load of overly-serious and utterly derivative bollocks.
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