#476 Nero - Welcome Reality

I don't even know how I got sucked into listening to this.

So this is why people hate dubstep. I mean, not because of this album directly, but I'm getting exposed to all this ravey, maximalist techno that uses buzzy bass, warped synths and big drops to create the electronic equivalent of Limp Bizkit. Skrillex, Qemists (whose album was so bad I couldn't make it past 3 songs and therefore is in that set of shadow bad reviews that never actually exist as posts on here) and now this album. Dubstep tricks don't ruin albums, DJs ruin albums - it's the alto sax, vocal harmonies and blues chords - all a matter of how you use em.

This isn't a good way to use em. The songs are rockist, but not in a good way, full of female vocals repeatedly crooning things like "are you ready? do you know? I feel it too" like an Evanescence B-side. Or A-side, they seem like a band that's gone dubstep by now.

Build build drop WOBBLE repeat. There are some exceptions, like the simmering Scorpions, but they most draw attention to how transparently the wobble is being used on this album. Ok, that's a nice trick, but it's not a 4/4, you can't build songs on it. This stuff might be dancable, but I'd be embarassed to dance to it. Is this dubstep for girls? That might explain a lot - not because girls listen to bad music, but because music for most any group is probably a mistake.

Listen to Crush on You and tell me that's not one of the worst songs you've heard all year. Lets outdo ourselves for inane lyrics, tune the vocals to a snow scraper edge, use our wobbles as randomly and clumsily as possible and then randomly break into a double time shitshow Cindy Lauper remix. I could do this all day. No wonder people revere that Luomo album, look where things ended up 12 years later 1/5

You might like this if: you think dubstep techno should be less imaginative and more annoying. Oh, and more slathered in chewed up samples of girls yelling "I got a crush on you!"