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5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark synth-pop sensation...., March 18, 2002
This review is from: Zehn (Audio CD)
The strangest thing is that all the best synth-pop bands come from Germany or England. Ususally the darker synth sounds come from Germany and De/Vision has been one of the most important synth-pop bands from there. This album is a great way to get to know the band if you dont already. It includes most of the singles of the band from the past 10 years. Songs like "Your Hands on My Skin", Try to Forget" and "Dinner Without Grace" are club sensations and most of us have heard them at times. There are also lots of great dark, slow songs that will make us cry and this band can really express those feelings well. We all have gone through the first love blues and know how hard it is to forget and the song "Try to Forget" expresses those feelings in a few verses so wonderfully. I love this album and its definatly one of my favorates. I like to refere to De/Vision as Depeche Mode of the 90's.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Not Depeche, not any the less for it., June 24, 2002
This review is from: Zehn (Audio CD)
If Depeche Mode are a favourite band.....prepare to have another. Not that these guys are a carbon copy, in fact they sound like no-one but themselves. Nonetheless, the influences they have in common are apparent, and they share elements like the infectious beats coupled with honest and true lyrical composition, the landscape of sound and evocative arrangements which are so characteristic of Depeche Mode, and so draw these comparisons. Quality weighed against quality, De/Vision come off ok, for they are no pretenders to the throne but have plenty to say, and their own delicately constructed harmonies with which to say it. Steering well clear of the worst excesses of electronica's sometime tendency to indulge in navel-gazing and equally far from the meaningless banality of the dance-ruled new electric, these guys carefully punctuate the finer points of what electronica truly has to offer. In fact, that is really what they do: the finer points.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Awesome - A must for every synthpop fan, January 5, 2001
This review is from: Zehn (Audio CD)
If you want to have a clear idea of what these band had been making since 5 years before, get it. Some of their songs are remixed with a dance-music style (like Your Hands on My Skin), you could appretiate their mature style. It's a really nice album, is not dark, it includes some romatinc songs and danceable ones. If you don't know the band, get this first, Monosex and Void after, you wont' be dissapointed.
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