This is a truly amazing CD.  Eack track is a showcase of extrordinary talent.  The album is a tour of the future we are hurtling towards, beginning with the end of our modern age and then taking you on a walk through the ruined cities of our planet and giving the realization that there is a poison inside of you which was injected into your body by modern society.  It has powerful and innovative music and ingenious and insightful lyrics backed up by excerpts of speeches by philosopher Carl Sagan.  This, I would say is the best electronic album I have ever listened to.  I give this CD 5 stars and I recommend it to everyone who wishes for a better future...
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Mutating background ambience and dissonant, tinkling pianos meld into an ever-growing earsplitting roar of noise, warning us of some impending catastrophe, which follows moments later as the chaos subsides quite suddenly and the words "Welcome to your atrocity…"  introduce us to "Lustrate Incarnadine," the second full-length release from the outspoken post-industrial duo Dreamscape Unlimited.

Lyrical hooks are prevalent on this disk, as these two self-described proponents of social and political change take advantage of every opportunity to breed thoughts of discontent. The musical composition is no less ambitious, as the scope and range of this album shifts and collapses from violent misanthropy to brooding melancholy and even moments of profound hope and sadness. This is the kind of project one would expect from the likes of Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails, not from a small, unknown act from the Mormon haven of Salt Lake City, Utah, but nevertheless the attempt succeeds on almost every level. 

Though it deftly juggles sweeping political and philosophical themes, at its core this is an anti-war album, with post-apocalyptic imagery painting a detailed vision of human failure and arrogance. It’s hard to believe the recording was actually completed in  late 2000, as the music resonates deeply in a post 9-11 world. Peppered with samples from World War II radio broadcasts, speeches from Scientist/Philosopher Carl Sagan, and unforgettable lines, Lustrate Incarnadine is a bold indictment of the human enterprise that challenges the listener to greet it on it’s own terms. And in that regard, it is well worth the effort.
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