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Nerve Exhibit:
The Horror of Amusement EP
In just ten years, the words goth and industrial have developed so many negative connotations that I dont even like to use them any more. Maybe thats why I was excited by the somewhat pass trends of Electro. Sure, a lot of it was crap, but at least it gave electronic music a broader context somewhere between the poles of Techno and Goth/Industrial. So just looking at Nerve Exhibit and the cover for The Horror of Amusement, many will quickly throw them in the Goth/Industrial bin and write them off as someone elses band. And I admit that the vocals here fit that category pretty well. A song like Taste for Futility could have been lifted from Too Dark Park, and I would hardly know the difference. But some songs on this EP, like Choke, are more restrained with an ambient or ethereal feel, and the male vocals on half of the songs are a bit gentler and calm. Unexpectedly, it is this calm approach that delivers the EPs true gem with the final track The Blue Below. The song uses pretty straightforward piano and vocals to evoke a far creepier feeling than your average collection of noise machines and distorted electronics. The effective use of subtlety is an art often forgotten in the Goth/Industrial arena nowadays, especially by the bands that cater more to the youth markets. On The Horror of Amusement, Nerve Exhibit has a few tracks potentially strong enough to appeal to music fans outside their stylistic niche, and when youre talking Goth/Industrial thats no small feat.
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