Project Pitchfork’s latest offering is a pretty decent album
called Deception. It sounds pretty much par for the course
for Project Pitchfork, and fans of the band shouldn’t be let
down. The music is pretty well written, as usual, with the
signature sound fans of the band have come to know and
love over the past decade or so. Peter Spilles’ vocals are a
bit rougher on Deception than on other Project Pitchfork
albums such as Eon:Eon or Chakra: Red!, delivered with a
bit of an aggressive growl this time around.
Oh, sorry, wait a second. Now that I take a closer look, I can
see that this isn’t Project Pitchfork at all. It’s the N*Sync to
Pitchfork’s Backstreet – Absurd Minds. Listen to this album
and you’ll see how I could get the two confused.
All kidding aside, Deception is a good album. Sure, it
sounds like it was pieced together from the loose bits of
tape lying around on Peter Spilles’ studio cutting room floor,
but it’s pieced together very well and is an enjoyable album
all around. – chris parasyte
Tag: Scanner Records
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Absurd Minds – Deception
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Absurd Minds – Damn the Lie
The second verse the same as the first – Absurd Minds
return with their second full-length CD of Project Pitchfork
influenced EBM. It’s a good thing Deception was a really
good CD, because Damn The Lie shows little evidence of
artistic growth in terms of song writing, composition or
thematic. The songs on Damn The lie are well produced,
and well written, but they really just stay the course as laid
out on the previous CD.
While it is an enjoyable album to listen to, it really doesn’t
break any new ground. It’s good, but not great. If Absurd
Minds can just break out of this trying to sound “More
Pitchfork Than Pitchfork” mentality they seem to be set
into, and work towards a more unique sound of their own,
they could be one of the groups to watch in the next few
years. – chris parasyte
