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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
NO COMPLAINTS, August 1, 2001
By A Customer
Polarity is probably Haujobb's most structured and commercial release to date. It sounds a lot like their 1996 hit album, Solutions For A Small Planet with hints of their last album, NinetyNine. I feel that this is the perfect fusion of laid back minimal electronics with moments of fast-paced, harsh techno. Dan Myer has also improved on his vocals and added some emotion. It is very obvious that Haujobb are the true leaders of the EBM sub-genre in the dying world of industrial music. Great songs are: Boom Operator, Subsonic, Unseeing, and my personal favorite, Violator. The only song I don't care for is Your Pilot. This is the perfect album for newcomers to Haujobb and devoted fans like myself. Next, try Solutions and NintyNine. Even though this album will never get radio or TV air time, this artful band will always continue to release great music under the ever so fabulous Metropolis Records.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A nice stylistic change, June 11, 2004
I think this album is really good. To compare it to old Haujobb doesn't do anything much justice because it's not the same thing. Granted, albums like Homes and Gardens and Freeze Frame Reality were kickass, you gotta face it, times and bands change. Look at Front 242, for example. They've practically lost their minds! That being said, I have to point out to the music fan(s) from Denmark, I suspect it's the same person doing this, because it's all bad reviews and his (?) only complaint is bad singing (which I don't think it's all *that* bad) and it's not old Haujobb. As I said, bands change, and if it's the same person person posting all those messages, ignore him.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of Haujobb's best, October 27, 2003
The title is deeply ironic -- this is the album that polarized Haujobb fans, with the supporters on one end and the detractors on the other. Ignore the detractors. They're wrong.
The difference between Polarity and older albums is that he has toned down the distortion on the vox and is alternating between speaking and singing, and if you're not listening carefully it can occasionally come off as being slightly out-of-tune. But the composition of this album is nothing short of masterful, even if most of the early songs are just William Gibson sentence fragments. He does have a misstep or two -- the otherwise excellent "Demon" has an annoying vocal effect that takes some getting used to, and "Violator" is a pseudo-ballad with lyrics that make me cringe. The highlights are more than enough to overlook these faults, as every other song is a full masterpiece. If you like Haujobb and you're amenable to some drum n' bass influences, then there is no way you could resist this.
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