Band: ReAdjust

Album: Statement

Album Year: 2007

Label: Hypervoxx

Genre(s): Synthpop. EBM

Band Website: ??

Rating: 3/10

Alright, the infamous Hypervoxx records has given another gift unto the world, this time in the form of german synthpop. Although to be honest when I saw the cover art I thought someone had sent me some indie rock by mistake. Anyhow I’m sure you’re eager for me to get finished with this intro and get into what you came here for…a shitty review!

The latest release from ReAdjust is called Statement, and offers 10 new tracks and two remixes, from centhron and crownick respectively. Statement is chock full of great, well written and memorable synthpop. No, no, I’m just kidding! It’s almost the complete opposite. The album is indeed synthpop/ebm, but sounds like a poor rip off of Blutengel. The sound quality is pretty good and the mastering is alright, but that is about where the good qualities end. The music itself isn’t TERRIBLE, but honesty, this album is completely pointless. This is the most generic, uninspired, you’ve-heard-every-element done-better-a-thousand-times-before, EBM I have ever heard in my entire life. Every track is basically the same synthline/beat for five or six minutes, with some extremely bland and insipid vocals to top it off. Occasionally they try to vary up their mix and add in guitars or female vocals, but they always come off as equally, if not more bland and soporific. This album does not make me want to move at all, in fact it does the opposite. It makes me want to fall asleep immediately. I’m actually having trouble writing this review because just thinking about “Statement” drains me of energy. It’s kind of ironic that this album is called “Statement”, yet it says absolutely nothing and goes absolutely nowhere. A statement of what? That you are trying desperately to copy every other European EBM band in existence and failing? Great. Oh, and I think that it is kind of funny that the linear notes explicitly state “entirely recorded in germany”. Wow, no shit!? I wonder if that is trying to give them some kind of credibility or something.

There is no real need for me to go further into it. Every track is basically exactly the same. All similar tempos, “moods”, and atmosphere…or lack there of. There is no real structure to any of the tracks, just the same shit repeated over and over and over. Every sound on every song is exceeding bland. There are absolutely no memorable parts on this entire album. The songs are not dynamic in the slightest and none of them carry any life whatsoever. This is EBM at its absolute blandest. Thanks again Hypervoxx. Ughhhhhhh.

Oh, you guys are probably like “dude you went out of your way to mention the fact that there were remixes on this disc, aren’t you going to say something about them??”. You’re right, I should mention them. The Centhron mix does the best it can with this material and isn’t too bad. But…it’s not really particularly good either. It is a decent upbeat EBM track, but nothing you haven’t heard done numerous times in a more tasteful and dynamic way. The other mix almost has potential…the main synth line is pretty upbeat (though not quite engaging), but in the end it comes off as only a bit less bland than the rest of the non remixed tracks. Pick up the album if you’re having trouble sleeping.

-[.d4n b4rr3tt.]

june 2007