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Rotersand
"Truth Is Fanatic"
Format:
CD/Album
Online date:
2/2 2004
Label:
Endless Records
Genre:
darkwave
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This might be a debut, but the members of Rotersand, Rasc, Gun and Krischan, all have a past in different projects. Rasc is a member of The Fair Sex, a band Gun have worked with, and they have both worked with 1am and Warm. Krischan has worked as a producer for different techno and electro constellations. With that given it should come as no surprise that this is a well produced and well sounding album. What surprises me however is how well the album blends together, not in a bad way, on the contrary, this is a varied album, not a collection of songs. From the first track to the last it has a certain flow, whereas the songs blend into the next one. And I have to admit, the first thing that struck me was how well produced it is, I guess you could say I couldn’t see the trees because of the forest the first time around.
However, now that I have been listening to the album a lot there are certain trees that stick out, for instance “The Fire” with its driving monotone bass line, as well as the cool anthem “Social Distortion”, where Sina of Psychobitch does a guest performance, which has been getting a lot of airtime at my place. There are a few more upbeat tracks worth mentioning here, but I’ll skip on to the slower “One Level Down”, which is a ballad complete with acoustic guitars and strings, it might sound a bit according to the manual, but I think it is a really nice track.
Finally, if you’re looking for an electronic dance album with good vocals, catchy choruses I truly, madly, deeply recommend you to get this one. And if you get intimidated by that description, thinking “this is another one of those boring futurepop albums” think again, it is not. It is so much more than that, but still there are some points at which it is just that.
/Fredrik Hörström
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Rotersand"Truth Is Fanatic"
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Reader Opinions
What? I just don't get it!!
Name: Procyon (82.41.101.15)
Rating: 2
After all the hype surrounding 'Truth Is Fanatic', I simply cannot understand what it's all about. Boring as hell, like staring at a sea of beige paint. Not a single inspired or inspiring moment, more just like a constant stream of regurgitated cliches, seemingly going from Nitzer Ebb to Pride And Fall without any recognition of the 15 years of progress in-between, nor any striving to add anything to the mix, save some terrible-sounding use of guitars, that only seem to add to the flat, lifeless sound of the production. There seems to be absolutely no point at which the guys who made this thought 'whoa, that sounds cool!'. Rather, they just wrote the whole thing, striving towards merely acceptable. And even then they fail. Dated like bad EBM and just plain boring like bad futurepop.
sell out trendy f pop shit
Name: electro fuzz (217.209.95.48)
Rating: 2
What is this? A nice band (TFS) selling out for the stupid dancefloor market!!!??? Fucking shit! Lads, get back on track and bury this trancy-future-pop-shit once and for all. Thank you very much...
Amazing
Name: Brian (62.243.174.111)
Rating: 8
I agree the Rothersand album is great stuff, one of the best releases in 2003, the vocals are good, you can´t hear that they are Germans, no accent, he, he.
Good EBM!
Name: Trevize (130.231.240.27)
Rating: 8
Rotersand's newest album shows that Electronic Body Music is not yet dead. This is what EBM should be!
This album delivers
Name: Horizontal Theory (164.82.144.3)
Rating: 8
Vocals are actually not annoying and go quite well with the music. Hard ebm/techno beats can be found on this release. "Sonic Agony" is a great tune. I'm looking forward to future releases from Rotersand.
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