Beast of Prey
Usually I get a bit itchy on the wrong places when darkambient or industrial projects use war imagery to make a statement or to emphasize whatever it is what they try to tell or sell. Sadly the itch comes up while reading the 'Influences' on MySpace: "World War II, industrial facilities" ... I stop reading. What is it with WW2, or WW1, or any other war? Expressing an interest is okay, but beautiful art shouldn't have any connection to something horrible as war.
But that's all me, I'll stick to reviewing music :-)
Droin makes an elaborated version of dark ambient the way I personally like a lot. In its basics it is a minimal approach to oldschool industrial music with a certain level of bombast, combined with elements of death industrial and soundsculpting. The CD doesn't have a bad track and forms a welcome moment of relief in a mixed scene where a lot is being done with four to the floor beats on the one side and harsh noise on the other.
Deep ambient layering, combined with minimal noises all over the place (for example on 'Marching last') or vocals which remind of intro's from black or death metal tracks in combination wih deep analog beats ('Command and Obsession'), 'Time to reconsider' covers a whole scala of styles and influences.
Over an hour of music worth more then a release on CD-r. I hope to hear more of Tomasz Kretowski in the future. And the Plato quote made up for thar war thingy I started the review with ...
"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato
It's indeed 'Time to reconsider'.
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