Transient 5.2

Sister Machine Gun | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Positron! Records
• ASIN: B00005N83W
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #528,044 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Generations of Change, February 22, 2003

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This review is from: Transient 5.2 (Audio CD)

When Chris Randall feels the need, Sister Machine Gun learns to change faces and becomes something new and, further, something exciting. Sometimes this can be as simplistic as changing a few denotations within the words and other times it can be something larger, like redesigning the structure of the album in its entirety. It has always been like this since the first album and the second album were put together, too, just as it has been evident in the last albums that have been done with the 6.5 Desert Companion and 6.6 Machine releases. Within the morphos, many things have been attempted with much success, such as the junction of funk and jazz, rock and industrial, electronic and technotronic, the use of rap and the madness of certain motions, and all with much success. Here, within the confines of Transient 5.2, the ratio of success to failure is no different.

Within these off releases, called EPs by most individuals, it must be taken into account that Sister Machine Gun is a band that graces the world of these normally-remix releases by giving its audience at least a handful of new tracks to play with and one or two older tracks to ingest with a reworked expression. Well, in this 5.2 portion of their legacy, they did exactly that, feeding the listener songs expressed through some of the most electronically grounded releases with strange effects in it (I recall hearing the Atari game Tempest in song 4, for instance), avoiding the chaotic plateaus of the wondrous 6.6 but still attracting attention through song after song. Four of these, the most electro in nature, are over seven minutes in length and the fifth new track, Dead Generation, has more of an edge to it that some of the other do within his proclamations of "belonging to the Dead Generation Now." Perhaps this was the most surprising thing of all, too, because I had expect quite a bit, but nothing that spanned over so many minutes like this did.

Although this wasn't originally designed for an addition to rEvoultion but was later released as one, it is still worth of picking up and is something that stands on its own. In fact, its rather annoying that the two are coupled together like they are anyhow, because neither shares the same soul that pulses through each of their veins. So, if you are looking for Sister Machine Gun album but have hesitated, fear not and acquire!

5.0 out of 5 stars i belong to the dead generation, June 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Transient 5.2 (Audio CD)

This Ep is friggin sweet,this just might be smg's most "electronic" album ever, great lengthy songs that really point out S.M.G's artistic growth and capabilities as one of the better, well respected industrial rock bands around. With chris randall preaching his tempered fury over some crazy/dancy tracks, u cant go wrong with this one. You have speaker crushing bass, great guitar riffs, bizarre sound fx,deep lyrics everything you need.(good cd to practice your kung-fu too) As good as this ep is,for listeners who just recently started getting into S.M.G this might not be the best place to start for you, take my word for it, if you wanna understand their style completely, go pick up their first album "Sins of the Flesh" and work your way up from there.