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3.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed bag, July 25, 2007
This review is from: Wrong Meeting 2 (Audio CD)
Although it's not possible to glean anything from their extraordinarily annoying website, TLS is the well travelled producers and DJ's Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood, and as might be expected, they know how to maintain a groove. The sound tends to a layered affair, instrument tracks draped over a rock steady drumbeat, with Witherall's english affected vocals buried in the middle. He's not a great vocalist, but holds his own and fits well with the music, which is a kind of techno Echo and the Bunnymen type feel, something that you will feel very comfortable with if you loved the late 80's dark wave, like me.
Only part of this works, after the first four songs the energy level comes off and the music gets kind of dense. "Ghosts" is a little too megaphone voice silly to have in the playlist for long, and "Born Bad" has the mumbles, in spite of a clever biting guitar line. "Deborah" is stupid novelty stuff, don't even bother ripping it, why do people record dumb stuff like this anyway? No one's going to listen to it more than once (if that). "Lose Control" returns to the techno dance beat they're best at, but it's not really well focused.
Pretty good if it was an EP, but they really need to remember their DJ days and produce a CD that the dance floor would dig all the way through, because at the half way point of this I'd be looking for the men's room.
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