Cendres de lune
loteq | Regensburg | 02/06/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This collaboration with Italian guitar experimenter E.Bernocchi led to one of Mick Harris' most interesting albums. Well, after the departure of Scorn bassist/singer N.J.Bullen in 1994, Mick has begun to slip from the cutting edge, releasing a string of predominantly dull ambient albums under the Lull name. However, "Total station" is the best album since "Evanescence" and will satisfy all fans of his exceptional drumming, running in the same vein as its predecessor "Overload lady". For Mick's circumstances, the most part of this CD is up-tempo and sometimes even clubby. "Nervous?" and "Hammer treatment" with their distorted guitar parts are pretty aggressive, while the breakneck beats of "Kip" are reminiscent of Napalm Death's tracks in the mid-'80s. "Latent prints", "The corridor" and "Fading" are calmer and more atmospheric, yet there's an underlying danger with the music. Still, this album is not as frightening as Equations Of Eternity's "Veve" and The Weakener's "What do you know about it". Along with the forementioned Harris-related projects, "Total station" shows that there's still some creative fire burning."