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Album 11 is a fact! Announced by the surprising Phantom Pain EP and
video clip, cult Belgian electro act IMPLANT is back in full force and
signs with Cognitive Dissonance not only their most personal album to
date but also the most diverse in sound and the most electro pop oriented
to date. Next to an obvious strong focus on song
production where every tiny detail makes the difference, the overall
catchiness of this album embodies its essence and operates as a red light
from start to finish, plunging us into a melodic bath of catchy synth
lines, poignant sing-along choruses, carrying pulsing sequences and other
vicious noise loops. From the frontal industrial dance of The Devil Made
Me Do It and the dark elektro hit Censorship Through Noise to the lush
and sublime melancholic chanson The Last Record through more upbeat
future pop songs like Phantom Pain, Run To The Light or the techno pop
The King And The Rebel, this new album has a high addictive potential
for all electro industrial freaks open to synth pop music with an edge.
And this also gets reinforced by the sensual vocal contribution of HELALYN
FLOWERS frontgirl Noemi Aurora on several songs. And as always with
IMPLANT, the album of course holds some sonic surprises and more
experimental moments evoking techno, trance and other allusions to the
very characteristic sound of Belgium (eg. The Room, Nutshell).
Besides its quite intimate lyrics, Cognitive Dissonance
also triggers questioning on choices we blindly make by joining,
intentionally or not, social, artistic or other political bubbles in which
we get cocooned and fed to enjoy our artificially created comfort to the
max, giving everyone a feeling of being a special snowflake in the
universe
Any form of dissonance within such bubble being perceived as
offensive and getting censored through noise. As an artist, one must
strive to trigger all sort of discomforts. Its the essence of
creativity!, says Len Lemeire. Its a form of cognitive dissonance for
IMPLANT to release such a melodic electro pop album with balls! Its a
form of cognitive dissonance to gather such different remixers on one same
disc. Its a form of cognitive dissonance for us to hope and make the
difference with an album, he adds, tongue in cheek.
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