Hands up, who still actually listens to Powerman? True, they had a massive hit in 1999 with \u201cWhen Worlds Collide,\u201d but they quickly fell off both musically and in popularity. One of the more forgotten records of 2020 is the new Powerman. Down to one original member, frontman Spider, the band has changed their sound a bit over the years. What was once very spacey and sci-fi oriented has now transformed into a New Wave\/proto-goth sound that is basically hit-0r-miss. The fact this album is only half an hour shows how difficult it is to get things really moving and exciting enough to fill out a whole disc.<\/p>\n
The album is only about 10 songs and has one true standout, \u201cBlack Lipstick,\u201d a song that is probably the best thing the band have done in years and is in line with something Peter Murphy would have done circa 1990 \u2013 and it just happens to actually sound good. Other songs like \u201cSpecial Effects\u201d and \u201cBrave New World\u201d are just very boring and don\u2019t bring anything new to the table. They just kind of sit there and do nothing. Opening track \u201cCannibal Killers That Kill Everyone\u201d and \u201cLet the Insects Rule\u201d are pretty decent and prove that not all nu-metal bands have withered up and completely dried out.<\/p>\n
All in all, this is a decent release from a band that\u2019s almost 30 years old. It\u2019s far from being among the best of the year, but songs like \u201cBlack Lipstick\u201d are enough to still make this band more significant than some of the other wannabes and also-rans\/has-beens that are still making new music. Honestly, if it wasn\u2019t for the trash cover of \u201cWe Got the Beat,\u201d the album might score a bit better but some covers are just unnecessarily uncalled for. But it\u2019s still not a terrible record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10589],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-46035","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-powerman-5000","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46035","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46035"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}