Customer Reviews

The Missing

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From start to finish, inside and out, this album is the epitome of tasteful electronic music. Overly erotic, densely structured and filled with lyrical brilliance, The Missing is the CD I've been wanting to hear but has never been delivered by any of todays so called "artists". The disc has almost two personalities, tracks like "Breakaway" and "The Last Time" are filled with layers upon layers of 80's new wave influenced melodies and up tempo rythyms while "Homing Pigeon" and "The Missing" are hypnotic, grinding trip hop tracks with some of the best, most emotional lyrics I've heard in years. Singer Adrien McCarthy has a voice as angelic as it is devious and the use of noise and silence in the music that carries it is breathtaking. I'd also like to note that the bonus track (a remix of From Russia With Love) is amazing. While the original version rocks with tongue in cheek sexual overtones, the remix transforms the track into
an all out erotic trip. Vocoders and breakbeats have never been used this tastefully. I would recommend this album to anyone, rock fans, electronic fans, absolutely anyone, a great, great experience.

Lightfromadeadstar in my opinion, is the only band around right now who can truly mix electronic music and songwriting succesfully. Most bands that try this combo either have really crappy lyrics with no true feeling, or too much feeling and crappy music. I've had this cd in my player for months now and I never feel like I'm getting tired of it. Adrien McCarthy's singing is tender yet angry at times and he tells stories that truly connect with me. Standout tracks would be the title track (The Missing), so sad yet so pensive and dark, the end, where McCarthy pines "I miss the way, your cigarettes would burn, the stars from the sky...but now they won't return" is brilliance. "Breakaway" is a mover, climbing basslines chugging around some of the finest production I've heard in years, and my absolute favorite, "Eight Million People" is breathtaking. I truly haven't heard a collection of songs that are all so quality, no filler anywhere since my youth when Depeche Mode's Violator came out. I hope this band tours, I hope they break the music scene wide open because lord knows it's time. They have what it takes to really change things, now it's up to you to support it. Buy the cd.

Every song sounds like Nine Inch Nails (NIN)... that is if NIN was a group hand picked by music corpration executives rather than organically created through word of mouth and having built an audience pre-label.