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Thought It Would Be Better

Justin Waters | Los Angeles, CA United States | 09/20/2005

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This album was available for sampling at a listening station at a record store, and something about the minimalist cover and rave reviews on the sticker intrigued me. So I checked it out, and I tried not to let the fact that one side of the headphones didn't work so I'd have to hear it in mono taint my opinion. The first track, "Better World", rocked and was reminiscent of The Faint, which is a good thing. I continued sampling the 2nd and 3rd songs and I thought I was onto discovering a hidden gem - a good album with a bonus disc containing remixes!



I ordered it, and when it arrived in the mail, I immediately threw it on. Again, the first song sounded great, however after really listening to it, I realized that there wasn't much substance to it after all. I wanted to give the album a chance, so I let it play all of the way through, and I was disappointed to hear that the energy level with each passing song continued to decline as it progressed towards the end of the album.



It got to the point where by track 7 ("Invisible"), I was like, "What the heck?!!" A listless meandering ambient song when I thought this was a party! I like mixing it up a bit and can handle some diversity, but that's not good when I'm not completely hooked yet. Too much diversity can tend to alientate someone. Things picked back up on the very next track, "Best In Show" (which actually contains elements of "Satellite" by BT), but then the next song "Rattlewasp" is an instrumental rock/dance song, and by this point, my patience had already been spent.



And I'm not one of those people who look for the "edited" versions of albums because they can't handle a swear word in a song, but the line, "I'm getting sick of your s**t" in "Girls Can Be Cruel" (which I agree with the sentiment, by the way), I just felt like it was an attempt to be irreverent; thus to me, it came across as forced and unnecessary.



I checked out the remixes, but they didn't do much for me since I wasn't that taken with the original versions of the songs.



If they came out with something else, I'd probably check them out because in all fairness, they do have a few good songs, but there would have to be more "oomph" to get me want to add this to my collection (I'm giving this album away). Maybe this is the type of album that could grow on you. But for me, the interest to let that happen just wasn't there."

Okay, but not the sound I'm used to

Nicholas Brownfield | Anchorage, AK | 10/01/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I am a really big fan of Infusion's remixes... They all have a very distinct sound that is very fresh and different from a lot of other artists. When I heard this album for the first time I was taken aback. It was not anything like what I was expecting. A lot more pop oriented I guess. I guess if you like goldfrapp or something like that you'd probably enjoy this album, but I can't really get into it that much. As I own the import version of of it, I think the second disc would almost be worth buying this copy for the Adam Freeland and Evil 9 remixes... unless I can get them on iTunes."