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Amateur God: Near Life Experience
After reading the bio information about Amateur God, I was expecting to hear a slightly different album than what I actually heard. With listed influences such as Type O Negative and Rammstein, I was imagining a more aggressive sound than what Near Life Experience delivers. This mostly instrumental ambient music (the only vocals are confined to the background and are not in English) sounds like the soundtrack to a movie that hasnt been made yet, but should be. Blaz Erzetic, the brains behind Amateur God, describes the record as dark-quasi-gothic-semi-vocal-ambient, and that pretty much covers all the genres you could drop this music into. Each track is dramatic in its own way and relies on more than just keyboards and drum machines to carry it along. There are lots of thick effects throughout the albums fourteen songs, and they manage to both blend together and sound different from one another all at the same time. This gives the CD a very organic feel, which is hard to create when youre dealing with mostly programmed, electronic instruments. Standout tracks include Somehow It Must Have Been Started, Waiting to Go Inside Something, and Somehow It Stopped (Windy Day), but there was something enjoyable in every piece. Even though the songs are very keyboard-based, there is a sense of fragility that sits behind each track. All in all, Near Life Experience completely surprised me. This isnt the type of music I would normally seek out, but I really enjoyed this disc; I would recommend it to fans of the genre or even those who might be wary of ambient music, because this music could definitely change your mind.
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