Zerospace

Kidneythieves | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B0000634ET
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,033 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Beføre I'm Dead

2. Zerøspace

3. Arsenal

4. Molten

5. Black Bullet

6. Dyskrasia

7. Spank

8. Glitter Girl

9. Serene Dream

10. Amnzerø

11. Crazy

12. Placebø

13. Take a Train (Awakening)

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: KIDNEYTHIEVES
Title: ZEROSPACE
Street Release Date: 03/26/2002
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Zerospace, April 24, 2002

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John Davis (Ozark, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zerospace (Audio CD)

After some label problems Kidneytheives return with their second effort, Zerospace. Who? Kidney-who? Yeah, their debut, Trickster, never really hit big in the mainstream. This isn't a huge shock, though, female fronted electronic metal bands arn't on TRL very often. But Trickster did earn the band somewhat of a following(mainly stray Orgy and NIN fans) and fans will still love this record. Kineythieves maintain their KMFDM meets Poe sound. Free's vocals follow the music closly and she seems more comfortable with exporing vocaly on this one. There are a few cliches that surround Kidneythieves but, you cannot deny the music is really good stuff, nothing groundbreaking, but a nice solid record. Basically if you liked them before, nothing changed, and if you are new, if you like NIN and stuff like that you'll like this. Oh, And the title track is riducuously catchy.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark beauty, bright future, March 3, 2003

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J. Gillespie "gettingthere" ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zerospace (Audio CD)

It would be easy, and fall way short, to describe Kidneythieves as either a lighter Nine Inch Nails or a darker Garbage. Although the industrial sound recalls the best of NIN and the great female vocals bring to mind Garbage, Free Dominguez and Bruce Sommers have put together a more creative and palatable CD with Zerospace than either of those great bands ever managed.

The track from the movie Queen of the Damned, "Before I'm Dead," probably lured most people to buy Zerospace. The surprise probably came when the rest of the CD proved much better.

From the funk of "Glitter Girl" to the cover of the country classic "Crazy," Zerospace has a depth and dark beauty that Trent Reznor never managed. While NIN could get hopelessly repetitive at times, and Garbage can be stale, Domingeuz' vocals and the diversity of Sommers' material keep this CD from degenerating into uninteresting noise.

Kidneythieves now are, artistically, where Radiohead was with the release of The Bends. Hopefully, Free and Bruce won't make an OK Computer next and lose most of their audience with the arthouse follow-ups. While Nine Inch Nails, Garbage and Radiohead obviously inspired much of the material on Zerospace, these bands'shortcomings are nowhere to be found here.

This band will not be a backbencher much longer even with the recent explosion of great rock groups.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional, poignant and ROCKIN', March 26, 2004

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A. Freeman "rainbowpirates" (CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zerospace (Audio CD)

I discovered the Kidney Thieves quite by accident. I also spend a great deal of time searching for bands with female leads that are unique, edgy and interesting and frankly those are the best words in describing the music of the Kidney Thieves. Every tune on this album is great with one exception for me and that is the cover "Crazy"...although I'm sure this is just a personal preference since most folks I talk to find it very creative.

It is nice to run across such an edgy though expressive piece of work from a band with a female lead vocalist. Free stands on her own against all other alternative/industrial vocalist and the band mixes the two styles together so well that this album will please fans on either side. Most industrial music has too many sequenced drums and not enough guitar. Zerospace combines the industrial feel with acoustics drums and screaming guitars to produce a hard driving edgy feel that does not distract from the typically ethereal dance of most industrial bands the tend to put you in a coma. Bands like Collide, Lacuna Coil and Hungry Lucy are all very creative however after two or three listens, the material becomes monotonous. Five minute tunes with moody vocals is not as mysterious as these groups must think because after a while it just becomes incredibly boring background music and the CD gets shelved with the rest of my "OH WELL" collection.

Kidney Thieves is a band that can truly take industrial music to a place all it's own with out losing an ounce of integrity. This album has influences many of my friends who HATE industrial music into the most ardent Alternative fans and I'm hoping more groups like Lennon and Tapping the vein get their cue from the Kidney Thieves.