Indecision is something I can’t stand… I think. No, wait, let
\nme get back to you on that.<\/p>\n
Yet indecision is my opinion when it comes to industrial music
\nor industrial-edged rock. On any given day, I may love a disc that
\nI absolutely hated just the day before. I really don’t know why
\nthis is; maybe it’s because of my attitude that day, or what I’m in
\nthe mood for hearing – or maybe I just don’t know sometimes how to
\nreact to the music I’m hearing.<\/p>\n
In the case of Lab Animals and their debut disc
\nSilent Weapons For Quiet Wars<\/i>, indecision is the best
\ndescription for how I felt listening to the album. On one hand,
\nthere were some tracks that absolutely blew me away. On the other
\nhand, I found myself wondering what new trails this trio was
\nblazing that dozens of other bands in the same genre haven’t
\nwalked. (Maybe I also should have listened to this disc before
\ndigging into the new Nine Inch Nails.)<\/p>\n
The band – Zeke William McNeil, Greg Peterson and Richard Newman
\n– all seem to have the basic premise of industrial down without
\ngetting too radical about it: heavy synthesizer use, pounding bass
\nlines that threaten to smash the cones in your speakers, and vocals
\nthat often rely on electronic doctoring to emphasize a point.<\/p>\n
Normally, my smart-aleck comment at this time would be, “Been
\nthere, done that.” But Lab Animals start out this disc in strong
\nfashion with “Worlds In Collision,” a track that had me thinking
\nthis was going to be an extraordinary listening experience. Indeed,
\ntracks like “24 Hours In Hell” and “Some Other Destination” all had
\nme thinking the same thing, and that Lab Animals might really be on
\nto something with the chemistry on this disc.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, these moments of pure abandon faded faster than
\nthe Cubs’ playoff hopes, as
\nSilent Weapons For Quiet Wars<\/i> quickly fell into the same
\npatterns that I’ve heard on numerous other industrial albums. Had
\nthere been less nondescript tracks like “Angel Dust,” “Pure” and
\n“Death By Pain” on this one, it might have been an album that stood
\nout even more than it did on its excellent tracks.<\/p>\n
Two things about Lab Animals make me hold out hope that
\nsomething great still lies in their horizon for them. First, I will
\nadmit that even their weaker tunes seem to catch you to the point
\nwhere you don’t realize how long it’s been that you’ve been
\nlistening to this disc. They do know how to make almost an hour go
\nby very quickly. Second, the tracks on this disc that are prime
\nmaterial make me think that they have one killer album in their
\nveins, and that could be in their near future.<\/p>\n
\nSilent Weapons For Quiet Wars<\/i> has moments that suggest that
\nLab Animals will be a group to seriously contend with soon. If only
\nit had more moments like that, it would have been a better than
\naverage album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7593],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-39426","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-lab-animals","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39426","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=39426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39426"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}