Continoing Briliance (sorry) (The Contino Sessions - Death In Vegas)

Member Name: Dezza

Product:	The Contino Sessions - Death In Vegas
Date:	25/09/00 (8 review reads)
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Advantages: One helluva noise

Disadvantages: ??

So the follow-up to Dead Elvis, and having heard some of the tracks live, I had to give this a go.
Live DIV are a swirling cacophony of noise, and I didn't know if this would translate to CD.
Well from the first bars of Dirge I knew it had.
A lot of the tracks simply build on a riff and a sample, into a wall of sound.
And Dirge sets the tone perfectly. It's female siren-like vocal may be repetitive, but it hooks and has you humming it after no time!
The various collaborations with Iggy Pop, Bobby Gillespie etc work well, my fave is the Dot Allison track, which seems to build forever until the "Nobody Knows the trouble.." vocal drops.
Brilliant.

I quote these tracks, but it's just a great album. No average tracks, and it gells too.
Contino has less variety than Dead Elvis, but that's cos DIV have found their sound.
I love it!!

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