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Vantage Point

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It's getting harder and harder to get Deus' albums in the US before they go out of print, which is difficult to understand giving that they have been making the most innovating, interesting and creative albums for over 15 years. Each album sounds different than the last.
Vantage Point comes after the wonderful Pocket Revolutions and is another great album.
As always there are some low key songs and some high energy/high tempo ones (usually a combination of both in the same song), but they are all unique and equally as good. And thou I do like Pocket Revolutions better (for now), and the early Deus albums will always be the most special to me, it is just as good as the rest and a great addition to the ordinary, pretty much the same sounding album out there..

This dEUS album is mediocre at best. Sure, it has a few good tunes, but non of them are particularly remarkable, to me at least. It is nice to hear that they still have a sense of dark atmosphere on some of the songs. The problem with this album, if you ask me, comes accross clearly in the last track on the album, called popular culture. Tom Barman, the vocalist of the band seems to unable, or unwilling to make up his mind about being a shoegazer, a rockstar, or a craftsman of funky-electro-party-disco. The latter he tried under the Mangus moniker (see The Body Gave You Everything or Sleepwalker). The point is that that the combination of all these three doesn't work on this album, for me at least. Whereas they stayed at the right side on tracks like "the ideal crash" and "everybody's weird" (from their 1999 album The Ideal Crash), I really cannot appreciate songs like "the architect" on this album. Still, three stars, considering that there are a number of ok songs, which sound like dEUS at least. If you do want to get such a fusion approach from Belgium, try the band Dead Man Ray, particularly on their first album Berchem. Obviously, no disco there.