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King Virtue:
Kristallnacht
My first impression of this release is that this guy is really full of himself. The artwork is this dude (King Virtue) standing with his shirt off, damn near choking himself. It's very weird and creepy but not artsy, which is what I assume he intended. On the back of the insert, there are different angles of the same shot, with an American flag faintly visible. Lame. When I put this CD in the player, I was similarly disappointed. The music is very cheesy and ultra-generic. The first song (which the press pack describes as the debut single), sounds like a blend of every cheesy song from the 80s to squeeze out a product that... well... really sucks. The second song sounds almost exactly the same. It has a revelatory lyric about the world being a lot high school. I'm not sure what he means, but maybe I just dont get it. At this point I feel like I should point out that Kristallnacht is supposed to be a concept album. It's inspired by the Holocaust, but so far I haven't heard a single reference so farunless, of course, the Holocaust is a little like High School. The next song "Let Love Be" is, you guessed it, cheesy! To be fair, it sounds like it could be on the radio (albeit in the 80s), but it's pretty lame. My heart is like chocolate that melts when I'm with you. Skip. Track four is called "A Girl named Anne. Okay, so a song about Anne Frank. The song is completely straightforward and not very poetic. "A girl named Anne is hiding, she's writing a book and revising." At this point, I run out of things to say about this song. Let it suffice to say that the songs obvious references to the Holocaust are so non-subtle that they hit you over the head. That was bad, but the next one is worse. "Kristallnacht" is ridiculous. He even uses the word Holocaust in it. I just... I'm speechless. At this point, the album becomes increasingly repetitive and difficult to listen to. At one point in track seven, "On the Train to Auschwitz", I broke down laughing. "left, right, left right, left left left right" with the voice being panned to it's respective ear. Sheesh, if he was going for a dark mood with this, it sure didn't work on me. Track seven is comedic gold. I have to just lump the next three songs together, because I've exhausted ways to describe them. They all sound exactly like the previous ones, though they are all at least Holocaust-themed at this point. The last song of the album, "America," is hilarious. Just about the deepest lyric in this song is "I support the troops protection and the sacrifice. I respect the president, we must be tolerant to different views." Man. I can't stop laughing. Whew. I really have run out of things to say about this album, but thats okay, because it speaks for itself.
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