Velvet Acid Christ – The Art of Breaking Apart
Genres: Acoustic, Electro-Industrial
Label: Metropolis Records
Leave it up to Bryan Erickson to release the industrial album I want to hear.
But there is so much more here than just industrial on this album it’s unreal.
Drum machines and synths, the standards, are still present of course, but so is an acoustic guitar and a strong singing voice. Heavy and deep emotions fill the disc, and a nice sense of melancholy really pervades.
But, still, this is Velvet Acid Christ; even the guitar driven songs are still just so fucking dancy.
It’s a little hard to pick a favorite track on the first and second listens, but on the fourth listen they start to form. “Black Rainbows”, “Phucked Up Phreak”, and “Killing a Stranger” take the cake. But I still want to put down the title track too. It’s great.
Bryan Erickson is a genius.
9 out of 10.
Velvet Acid Christ on MySpace.