The diehard fans of KMFDM had to be crying in their Red Bull
\nenergy drinks last year when Sascha Konietzko and crew announced
\nthey were calling it a day… only to return shortly thereafter as
\nMDFMK.<\/p>\n
Confused yet? I don’t think you should be. The, aah, “new”
\nband’s debut release
\nMDFMK<\/i> still stays loyal to its industrial roots, while
\ndaring to focus on actual songwriting. While I never was into
\nKMFDM, I will say this much about MDFMK: If all their work is this
\ngood, I’ll be hitting the used CD store post haste.<\/p>\n
The band – Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli and Tim Skold – still dare
\nto sing about darker subjects, but they do so in a way that they
\nmake the listener think for themselves, which isn’t a bad thing at
\nall. Wrap this around a powerful industrial music core that dares
\nto get you up and moving while blowing out the bass cones of your
\nspeakers, and you have an album that is absolutely enjoyable.<\/p>\n
Cifarelli is an excellent addition to the lineup, proven by her
\nvocals on “Get Out Of My Head,” a track that should damn well be
\nadded to every “alternative” station around. You’ll still probably
\nhave someone trying to psychoanalyze the lyrics of this one – but
\nwhy can’t the listener just enjoy the song for what it is and take
\nwhat they want to away from it?<\/p>\n
The same goes for “Witch Hunt,” a song which seemingly answers
\nthe critics who slammed the late KMFDM after their ties to a
\nnationwide tragedy. If this isn’t a stinging damnation of those who
\nslammed Konietzko and crew, I don’t know what is. Sample lyric: “It
\ndoesn’t matter what you say or do \/ There is no justice – no future
\nfor you \/ Because you’re the scapegoat, you are to blame \/ This is
\nyour life – 15 minutes of shame.” Ka-pow.<\/p>\n
\nMDFMK<\/i> contains plenty of industrial power to convince the
\nband’s longtime fans that they haven’t abandoned the roots that
\nmade them so popular. Tracks like “Torpedoes,” “Transmutation,”
\n“Rabblerouser” and “Now” all show that MDFMK isn’t going anywhere
\nfor the forseeable future – and that’s absolutely fine with me.<\/p>\n
The only negative thing I can say about
\nMDFMK<\/i> is that the formula starts to wear a little thin at
\nthe end, but it’s not so frayed as to take away from the overall
\nenjoyment of the album. Tracks like “Hydroelectric” are still good,
\nbut they don’t quite measure up to the masterworks at the front end
\nof the disc. Still, I’m not complaining.<\/p>\n
No matter what name they go by,
\nMDFMK<\/i> is an album that proves that the worlds of industrial
\nand alternative can merge together to create actual songs that are
\nmore than enjoyable. There’s enough on this album that should make
\neveryone happy – and will undoubtedly be one of the discs that will
\nbe hard to get out of your CD changer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6325],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-36612","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-mdfmk","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36612"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}