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CD ReviewVenus Fly Trap – “Zenith”By Marcus Pan
Zenith runs close behind though, with modern urban technologies mixed with old tribal elements dizzied up into sci-fi genre visuals. It’s quite fine stuff and would be great as backdrop for works like Demolished Man[2] or The Gods Themselves[3]. A nice heady aroma and tasty flavor of future-pop and Euro-industrial. Vocals are subdued and spoken more than sung giving a storyboard feel to the work overall. Neon has an almost subliminal melody to it with catchy tinklings and subtle synthetics. Twilight Opera reminds me heavily of Kraftwerk era industrial with a bit of added squeaky guitar. There’s even interesting trappings of 80s video game sounds that, while I can’t define, add to the track’s charm. Naked Ape also has a catchy melody like the starting Metropolis. The slow moving breakdown is smooth and surreal with a nice slow piano section with a good choice of chords that seem to work together while still having a strange sharp sound. DNA becomes a chill out piece as Zenith begins to wind itself down. Bubbly synthetics and synth laced backwashes provide a nice background to the low bass monotone vocals. Neg X pops it up a bit to more mainstream friendly sounds with an almost disco and catchy flavor. It grows on you. Venus Fly Trap is rather good. With each listen I am considering changing my behind-Avalanche position on their Zenith release. It’s really not as far behind as first impression, and I remember I, Synthesist needing to grow on me a bit also so I shouldn’t be all that surprised. A nice concoction here, pick up some future-pop fun today! Contact Information: [1] His Avalanche release was reviewed in Legends #147. |
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Venus Fly Trap is reminding me of a just slightly less
interesting I, Synthesist[1]. It’s good though and I’m digging it.
Metropolis has a really catchy guitar rhythm swiped through it and
Zen gets a bit tribal on me. Zenith, by the way, is Venus Fly
Trap’s sixth album. It’s decent stuff, though if I had a choice
between Avalanche and Zenith I’d have to think about it only
a little before I chose the former.
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