This album is intense, dark, contemplative,visceral, sexy, sensual,angry,annoyed,strong, elated and well...manny other things as well. If you have experienced psychological confusion, angst, resentment, or any other intense stress, you will identify with this album. It is great.The guitar in Violent is shapr and intense. The tempo is fast paced like the pulse of a person who is strssed by the fear and violence of a city.Johnette's voice slaps the listener in the face repeatedly during the line: "Every nerve and every cell; they got to fight to stay alive and well,I'm in a world of chronic discontent. Screaming metal and burning rubber always shoving and raping and cursing each other, exploding into violence". The song evokes tension, fear and anger effectively.
On "When I was a Fool", Johnette's voice starts out mellow and pensive as she sings about someone liking her better in the past when she was a fool. As the listener is lulled into a mellow state of mind, suddenly the electric guitat screams in along with Johnette's intensely emotional voice which shifts from mellow and pensive to angry.
This emotional shifting from mellow and pensive to angry and predatorial continues on many of the songs. This album is great.
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The album is riddled with nostalgia, longing and an awareness of the pending end. I found Group Therapy to be very catchy, but with a different and more mature sound. Still willing to take chances and deliver with great hooks. Group Therapy is another worthy addition in the Concrete Blonde arsenal.
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