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Amazing band, underwhelming album to say the least.
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have discovered this band here on amazon in my quest to find comparable bands to Depeche Mode in that same vein of dark melodic synthpop. However I am even more fortunate to have chosen this album as one of the last and final additions to complete my De/Vision collection because had I chosen this as my first exposure to the band, I might not have become a DV fan at all. <
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>Looking past the intriguing cover art and amazing single spawned from it( Heart Shaped Tumor ), this album is terrible. You'd never know it to read the tracklisting, but tracks like "Silent Moan" and "Drowning Soul" are actually featherlight tracks full of optimistic and silly lyrics{"It's a beautiful world, we've got so much to do, this life is a grace, you know it's true" HUH?!?! This band did not come into popularity for making happy feel-good songs }and even weaker paper-thin synth beats. Do not misinterpret that I am just some gothic snob snubbing the band because they don't have their typical heavy doom and gloom dance sound. DV is perfectly capable of constructing a masterpiece of softer, more upbeat tracks and that is proven ten fold with "Devolution". Listening to this album almost makes me want to scream out in frustration! I can hear the lovely voice of the band that I've grown to love so much, still as true to form as ever, but the music, beat and lyrics sound so terribly cringeworthy that I would have never guessed that this indeed was DV if not for those familiar vocals. <
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>Further disappointment is the 3 bonus tracks included on this US edition, as they are all tracks available on the "Heart Shaped Tumor" maxi single, which is an extremely better purchase as compared to this. "Two" would be best classified as a DV ballad album but don't expect anything remotely similar to the sweet emotional magnificence of previous DV ballads like "Dress me when I Bleed", "Moments we Shared" or "The Melody of your Face". With the exception of "All I ever do" and "Heart Shaped Tumor", and the 3 bonus tracks, which are all true to DV's masterpiece form and thus, achingly out of place here, this album is chock full of unispired melodies, dreadfully boring synths, and laughable lyrics. Even if these tracks were completely redone by the likes of such masters like VNV Nation, Mesh, or even Depeche Mode themselves, they would still fall short of what De/Vision is all about. <
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>I feel that this album is for completists only. Those who want to own the quality bits of this album need only to aquire the "Heart Shaped Tumor" maxi single and download "All I ever Do". If you're starting from scratch then pick up "Zehn" ( a lovely singles compialation ) and anything from 1992-1998 for a taste of the classic dancable darkpop sound. The rest of the newer albums are all great and worth owning for a mellower, softer DV sound. Check out "Void" if you're into the experimentation of guitars in the mix, "Devolution" for a GOOD enterpretation of more optimistic and upbeat songs and the full fruition of the 'ballad album' idea with "6 Feet Underground", which is what I feel the band may have been shooting for when they made this album. Thank Goodness they fully recovered and got that one bad album behind them.