Review in 9th edition September 2009
author: Phosphorescence Magazine
Madame Curie’s Cabinet: A Nuclear Soundscape is an experiment in the intense. The first track, “Prospects,” left no doubt that if machinery were taking over the world, this is what it would sound like - unlikely matches of reverberations combined with an Asian influence, and a guitar, all trapped in a factory. Similarly, if subatomic particles, neutrons, and x-rays could be seen dancing together with the naked eye, “Potential” is the music that would be playing in the background. The mind cannot help but envision scenarios such as white-coated individuals in a quantum laboratory performing a psychedelic brain scan when “Shed Those Neutrons” echoes through your head. Okay, so maybe you’d visualize something else entirely, but this was our listening experience, so bear with us. “Pitch Blend” was the devil himself playing a fiddle, as dissonant as it comes, and closing the album was “Success!,” a hard core rock celebration, and “Potential Released,” an all-out onslaught of energy.
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