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SILPHA & THE CORPSEBONERS – agony and ecstasy

Review

SILPHA & THE CORPSEBONERS

agony and ecstasy

Genre
CD
Label
Eigenproduktion
Datum
12.01.2014
Autor
Karsten Conform
3 /10
If boredom sets in after 2 minutes of playtime, then there can only be a bad review! Unfortunately, this is also the case with SILPHA & THE CORPSEBONERS, a horror punk rock band from Nuremberg. To make matters worse, there’s a terrible sound and a dreadful vocal performance from the singer. At least that’s how the first 2 minutes feel to me in my car, where I can best judge a sound. After 2 minutes, I wanted to throw the album out the window because, as mentioned, nothing happened, just an intro on a horror film-typical organ plus female vocals after 1 ½ minutes, and that in lesser quality. My car sound system misses nothing and forgives nothing!
On the computer or a HiFi system, the sound isn’t as bad; the sound fills the room, and you don’t perceive the channels separately as in the car but as a whole, and suddenly the sound effect improves. However, this does not apply to the female vocals, which I still do not like, but that’s a subjective impression; there are certainly some who see it differently. However, when "he" sings, it’s not always better either. In three of the sixteen songs, the two (I have no data on what they are both called) sing in duet. On one hand, I like it because "Balladesque" strongly reminds me of Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue’s "Where the wild roses grow"; on the other hand, their singing doesn’t always harmonize. Especially in the second song "This kind of fate," it doesn’t fit. The third song "Echoes" lies somewhere in between.
Musically, SILPHA & THE CORPSEBONERS play simple rock without much fuss. In the third song "Erase Them!", there’s also a cool reggae melody! But the sound... well, it just doesn’t work in the car! And that’s what happens when you record in your band’s basement on your own! So next time, please go to a studio and have the songs mixed properly!!!!
After 44 minutes, the horror spectacle ends with an organ outro. It feels to me like being in a church after mass, back when you had to go as a kid ;-)
3 pity points and please don’t listen to it in the car!

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