Chain D.L.K.
author: Chain D.L.K.
The connection between the Canadian DJ
and Electro/Industrial artist GLENN LOVE and the German Sonic-X label
seems to be a constant one, since after his now more than 2 years olf
predecessor ”Belle Epoque”, he releases a new studio work. After having
toured intensely through Europe and America and with the grown
impressions taken out of all foreign areas in the past years, GLENN now
offers with ”Cryptesthesia” an album turning musically more directly
forward to EBM and Dark Electro music. The tracks have definitely
received more speed and - surprise, surprise - contrary to his past album,
he now has decided to sing. More than this, he also has learned German
in the past and some first tunes with lyrics in this language are
featured too (”Sagt Mir Wo” or ”Schnee Von Gestern”). GLENN uses a lot
of different FX manipulations on his dark sounding voice, although I
tend to say, that he hasn’t found an ideal kind of procession so far –
the vocals are the weak part in his general sound outfit and do still
need some polishing. Best tracks can be named with the title track, the
already mentioned ”Sagt Mir Wo” and ”Hang On”, since they all should be
able to keep the fans stomping. Not that bad work, and even more
recommendable, since GLENN avoids it to jump on the already passed
Hellectro-train. A bit more polishing work here and there and GLENN
starts an assault against the throne of the genre.
Review by: Marc Tater
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Dark Spy Magazine
author: Dark Spy Magazine
Translated review from Dark Spy Magazine
( September 2008 Issue )
The next album in front of me, is from the Canadian one man band “Glenn Love”.
From the first minutes of the opening song “Death Desire”, you recognize the elegant mixture of Industrial, Gothic and Electronic beats.
Hard electronics mixed with a futuristic speaking-singing gives Glenn’s music a powerful and desirable effect.
This very special mixture guides like a thread through all ten songs. Seducing and hard hitting like cement at the same time, this is how the artist presents his new album. It is remarkable, his rhythms stay in your head and really motivate everyone to dance.
Glenn Love is a musician from Toronto, who understands how to fabricate good music without loosing sight of his main ideas.
German original by: Verena Pichler .
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Side-Line
author: Side-Line
Glenn Love - Cryptesthesia ( cd Sonic-X Records )
Canadian electro-musician Glenn finished this 3rd album at the German TS-Musix studio. The original 10 tracks were recorded last summer and served already for the project's Fall 2007 mini tour. Glenn Love’s music is driven with hard industrial-dance beats, lush dark textures, experimental vocal structures and voice samples. In his online myspace bio I discovered his influences. Bands like Massive Attack, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Mlada Fronta, This Morn' Omina, Leftfield, Tom Waits, Amon Tobin, Caberet Voltaire, Kraftwerk, Skinny Puppy are mentioned. Although this is an industrial album, from the very beginning you can hear the man’s musical taste has a broad range. Avoiding the stereo type, sometimes (at high volume) painful industrial beats, this project chooses for a more polished sound, without losing the aggressive energy. Repetitive elements are found in songs like “Sagt Mir Wo”, although there are only a few vocal lines in this song, the repetition never becomes boring. Glenn Love succeeds in building up his songs in interesting pieces, while a lot of songs are based on one note. “Nuit Musée” is the perfect club friendly song without real vocals, only a few efficient vocal samples with strings reminding me of the earlier Suicide Commando. Together with the preceding song, “Hang On” and “Oil Peak – Auto De Fe Mix” we get the dark electronic climax in the second part of the album. Down tempo, but still industrial song “River” is worth mentioning, while closing track “Outskirts” might have been perfect without omitting the vocal part. To be honest, when the name Glen Love was mentioned, I thought I was holding kind of a Mark Almond album in my hands but I was wrong. This is a real ‘tainted’ Glen Love if you ask me. Interesting, fresh, upbeat industrial!
(NOA:7/8)NOA.
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Sonic Seducer Review
author: Sonic Seducer
Glenn Love “Cryptesthesia” (Sonic-X/Alive)
This sound doesn’t fit into any known folder.
Placed somewhere in the middle of Ambient, Dark Electro, Trance and Industrial.Electro-Allrounder Glenn Love is not inventing the music once again, but he’s perfecting his own style and is going new ways.
Already the first track “Death Desire” makes you desire for more.
The song gets you slowly from behind. If you catch it (the song) once, you won’t get
it out of your mind that fast. The following songs “Schnee von Gestern” und “Sag mir wo”
are accelerating.
Further, full of pressure and very industrial are coming up “Cryptesthesia” and “Nuit Musee”
followed by “Hang on”, in a little more classical electro style.
Especially powerful is the track “Oil peak” and even more “Airships” in the mix version “Wutklang”.
At least at this point the listener should react with inevitable epileptic attacks.
Music which is polarizing: Either you are enthusiastic or close to a nervous breakdown.
But no worries, “River” and “Outskirts” provide a reconcilable finish and spread at the end an ample sound-carpet on which you can completely relax.
If you are listening carefully you may even figure out some of these Celtic Folk
influences, which the artist is making use of, even before replaying the CD for sure an other
time.
By now Glenn Loves third Album “Cryptesthesia” represents brilliantly produced,
complex electronic music. Its nuts and goes straight in the ear.
Original in German by Kai Reinbold
Translation by Dennis Korth
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