Customer Reviews

Six Feet Above Yesterday

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Around the time When Sasha & JD released, Depeche Mode's, "Enjoy the Silence" remix in 2001, a spark was lit, not previously recognized by elecronic fans. 80's craze. In the past fours years Hybird has remixed REM, Tears for Fears has been done by Cass and Skylark and even Brothers in Rhythm, and Depeche Mode has been remixed by everyone.

Enter Infusion, with their own style and amalgamation between the tempo and mood of the 80's and the elecronic equipment almost three decades later. The stream of influences in the CD is incredible. As mentioned above, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, and even Crystal Method. Don't be fooled though; this isn't 80's/early 90's europop. It's got some hardas$ elements at work.

For those of you heavy into the electronica scene you probably have heard a couple different versions of some of the songs on this CD mixed into sets by Luke Chable, Sean Quinn, and Adam Freeland. Ergo, this CD presents Some great foundation tracks I'm sure you'll continue to hear in many aussie progressive sets.

For those of you not so into the electronic scene, I'm not usually into semi-alternative vocals during breakbeat, but Infusion pulls it off without decadance or verbal dominance. Lyrical themes are good, especially in the song, "girls can be cruel," where frustrations are vented with poetic anger.

I was fairly suprised by the quality of some ambient tracks intersperced throughout the second half of this CD, and found them welcome breaks from the intense style this group employs.

Overall, a pleasing mix, for those with a heavy taste for Europop and Disco. Modern 'dirty' synth satisfies on a lot of levels, and melodic builds also contribute to an overall sense of great production.

Four Stars (Compared with what is available as far as Vinyl.)
Five Stars (Compared with commercially sold Breakbeat.)

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.

Wow, i love this CD! Who knew Australians could make such great music???
I'm a big fan of Siobhan Fahey,Goldfrapp and Royksopp and this band fuses lots of elements from those electro delicious bands and adds a splash of rock!
This CD is aboundant with electronic beats with a slight retro feel, with great basslines and of course great male vocals that make this a MUST BUY for all contemporary electronic music fans.
This special version with the extra Remix CD is well worth it,it has awesome additional remixes to play on your stereo full blast.
This band gives me hope that great electronic/pop acts still exist nowadays and produce fresh beats and hypnotic electo songs.

I'm not sure why, but Infusion's rock/electronic hybrid doesn't work for me on Six Feet Above Yesterday. And while I can see why some people would be drawn to the aggressiveness of "Better World" or the jangly "The Careless Kind" or "Girls Can Be Cruel," their particular mix of it seems to flatten both the rock aspects as well as the electronic ones, resulting in a sonic gruel. Definitely, the instrumentals ("Feeding from the Hand," "Love and Imitation") seem more successful, which maybe suggests a weakness with the the traditional 'verse-chorus-verse' structure of their songs -- "Daylight Hours" takes on an Underworld vibe to great effect. But there's something about tracks like "Natural" that just don't seem sincere. On the disc of mixes, King Unique puts a prog-house spin on "Girls Can Be Cruel," but Dylan Rhymes break on the same track hit the spot better. Evil Nine put a Gary Glitter-like beat to "The Careless Kind," and Switch chops up the track so that it's pretty much unrecognizable. Josh Wink shows up for a light acid-bath of "Better World," while Adam Freeland goes at the guitars and breaks like a hammer and tongs. The b-side of "Do to You (in '82)" does indeed go back to the decade of yore for a pleasant enough time. Maybe this infusion just needs more time to steep.

I had never heard of this band before, and that's strange considering I'm a huge electronic/dance buff, but someone on a music forum had brought Infusion to my attention and I gotta say that I am now hooked. There's plenty of hard-hitting beats, but there's also a few ambient tracks to keep things interesting. Oh, and "Girls Can Be Cruel" just might be the best dance track I've heard in ages. Highly recommended.

I have to admit, this album is a lot better than I expected. If you enjoy really cathy & energetic electro, I'd recommend checking this out. It's nothing to give 4 or 5 stars (in my opinion) but I'm glad I bought it. My favorite tracks are Better World, The Careless Kind, Girls Can Be Cruel and Natural. A few others are pretty good, too. My main complaint is that some of the instrumental tracks get too repetitive. If they learn how to keep the variety constant throughout the whole album and avoid annoying repetition, they can become a truly incredible band. No doubt.

You might not like this album, but as a whole Infusion is a forward thinking, innovative, FUN group of electronic music makers. Alas, once you have seen them live (as ALL of it - including vocals is live) it's hard to listen to them in your car. All in all a good show of some easy listening rock-tronica

Maybe their next album will really be inspired!

I really like this album. The previous reviewer already made a number of great points, so I have little to add. The only thing I wanted to say is that the album "Ultra Music Festival 01"'s 14th track by Infusion, titled "Legacy (Junkie XL version)", is possibly the groups best effort, and well worth purchasing if you like this album.

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.

ok im not usually into this type of music - im more of a rock, indie, alternative girl. however i saw these guys in concert and it was amazing - i didn't know any of their songs and i found myself dancing crazily to them. this prompted me to get their CD - i wasnt disappointed! even if you're not really into electronica/dance type music its worth checking this band out - i like their album, especially the songs 'girls can be cruel', 'better world' and 'the careless kind'.