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Artist: SemiOn
Title: Nuclear Attack
Format: CD
Label: self-released
Rated: *****
Nuclear Attack is a concept album about the devastation of a Nuclear War. This album, in fact, seems heavily influenced by games like Fallout rather by the words of Oppenheimer and, probably, due to the young age of their author.
This story begins with "you cannot win" an intro to "Nuclear War" an almost dance songs with beats, samples and guitar. "The blast" is a noise track based on siren like sinewaves, "All that remains is..." is an ambient track that tied with "the unquiet place" create a long emotional desert based on radio waves and soundtrack like effects (think at the noise of neon), maybe a little too long but of undeniable effect. "The reawakening" moves on tribal-like territories and "The shapes of things to come" takes the same theme of "nuclear war" to close the album with some sort of happy end (?!?).
This album lacks a true direction, SemeiOn has done a good record but revealing all their influences, seeming more like a descriptive soundtrack. When they will be able to synthesize their own sound merging all the good bits of this records, they could be really a band.
Available through http://semi0n.bandcamp.com/


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