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Collide is the combination of the dark sultry voice of kaRIN and the largely electronic arrangements of Statik. Their sound together is a mix of different styles and influences most prominently industrial and trip-hop. The duo have been making and recording music as Collide since 1992, and have been running their own label, NoisePlus, since 2000.
‘These Eyes Before’ is Collide’s fifth studio album and this time out it is a ten track collection of new covers. Now, as much as I love cover songs, usually a collection of them will ultimately be disappointing with only one or two worth listening to. This is so not the case with ‘These Eyes Before’. Collide hooks you in from the very start, and astounds you track after track with the re-visioning of some classic songs you never expected to hear like this. They have smartly book-ended this collection with two great Pink Floyd covers (“Breathe” & “Comfortably Numb”) and packed in standouts like “Nights In White Satin” and the surprisingly great, “Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing”. The real show stopper here is a cover of Radiohead’s debut hit, “Creep”, just awesome. There is also an excellent cover of Space Oddity that the legendary David Bowie would be proud of. They are all so good, I could just keep going but…
You will no doubt be hearing at least a few of these songs pop up in the soundtracks of this years movies and TV shows. ‘These Eyes Before’ has a great ambient, mood setting sound, and is so fresh that I have to imagine that producers will be knocking down doors to get one of these tracks in their scenes.
Ps. On a side note, ‘These Eye Before’ was sent to us in perhaps the coolest little hand made press kit I’ve seen in a long time.
Collide – These Eyes Before
Track listing:
- Breathe
- originally by Pink Floyd - Nights In White Satin
- originally by The Moody Blues - Come Together
- originally by The Beatles - Creep
- originally by Radiohead - Rock On
- originally by David Essex - I Feel You
- originally by Depeche Mode - Space Oddity
- originally by David Bowie - Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
- originally by Chris Isaak - Tusk
- originally by Fleetwood Mac - Comfortably Numb
- originally by Pink Floyd
November 03, 2009 – Noiseplus Music
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