From the vaults: Sunna – One Minute Silence (2000)
The debut album from this British band saw heavy music fused with industrial elements, trip hop and the darker edge of dance music. No-one sounded like this before; and no-one has since. You can tease out some of the influences – Killing Joke, The Prodigy, Misery Loves Co. (remember them?) – but in truth, this was much more than the sum of its parts. The smokey vocals and grungy lament of the acoustic ‘Pre-occupation’ contrasts with the glorious hooks, frazzled guitars and loops of ‘I’m Not Trading’; and whilst the industrial stomp of ‘Power Struggle’ evokes The Prodigy mating with tar thick grunge, the dripping, drugged-out acoustic beats of ‘O.D’ and ‘Too Much’ offer something less instantaneous, but rich in all its seeping glory. Indeed, ‘Forlorn’ is music to melt too.
This was not metal – it eschews histrionic and wails of the that genre – but it is a warm and glistening record full of dark moments. ‘Instant Pulse’ combines a teasing vocal with the sonic boom of a distorted bass and the incessant mantra of ‘I wanna know if I wanna know if’ to drill itself into your brain. Powerful, delicate, and unique.
The debut album from this British band saw heavy music fused with industrial elements, trip hop and the darker edge of dance music. No-one sounded like this before; and no-one has since. You can tease out some of the influences – Killing Joke, The Prodigy, Misery Loves Co. (remember them?) – but in truth, this was much more than the sum of its parts. The smokey vocals and grungy lament of the acoustic ‘Pre-occupation’ contrasts with the glorious hooks, frazzled guitars and loops of ‘I’m Not Trading’; and whilst the industrial stomp of ‘Power Struggle’ evokes The Prodigy mating with tar thick grunge, the dripping, drugged-out acoustic beats of ‘O.D’ and ‘Too Much’ offer something less instantaneous, but rich in all its seeping glory. Indeed, ‘Forlorn’ is music to melt too.
This was not metal – it eschews histrionic and wails of the that genre – but it is a warm and glistening record full of dark moments. ‘Instant Pulse’ combines a teasing vocal with the sonic boom of a distorted bass and the incessant mantra of ‘I wanna know if I wanna know if’ to drill itself into your brain. Powerful, delicate, and unique.
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