Review Summary: See track 7.
Industrial music as a genre is a hard one to enter and become genre defining. A lot of the music sounds the same, beats melt together and are used over and unless you can score a record deal or a huge tour you’re most likely going to go unnoticed. Selfish People are the case of the former where their debut album “Antelligence” is nothing to rave over, in fact you might as well not even bother. The beats aren’t anything you haven’t heard already and the vocals are tired and drawn out. Being it is a debut album gives it some leeway to be subpar, but the whole album just ends up confusing.
The sound gives off a dark-electro/EBM feeling with a bit of darkwave. During some moments of the album it might have been better off as an instrumental album without the vocals. The vocals are tired and boring, giving nothing comparable to normal EBM vocals and not much of a nod to industrial music at all. Certain points throughout the album production gets cloudy as well, the beats and background noise are so loud you can’t hear the lyrics or the singers voice which leads to a static like effect. The best part about this album is probably the sound effects.
The only thing that saved this album from being entirely horrible was the distorted noises between and underneath the beats. Most of the first half of the album sounds similar and again with the second half (with exception to track 8, Manipulation, which sounds like it was produced by Chromeo). Track number nine 00 takes the award for weirdest song on the album that you’re most likely to trip to. It sounds like a very slow electronic version of “I Know What Boys Like” with a weird electro twist. Again did I mention this album was confusing? Do I even need to sum this up? Well I suppose I can for those who don’t read the review and just go to the bottom; skip this over and wait for something a little bit more consistent and upbeat because this album feels like it needs a nap.
