I picked up Voyeur when it came out and decided that Noise Unit is an outlet for the band's
mellower ideas. But now that I compare this new one to the previous album, Deviator, I find on
Deviator some harder, Front Line Assembly-ish stuff, so I guess I'm wrong. Are there any big fans
of Noise Unit that can set me straight on this? Sounds like a topic for review, :-), but I don't
know their music well enough. Voyeur is the only album I know and I never perused their back-
catalogue. This album sounds pretty mellow, more like Voyeur than Deviator? Vocals sound like
they're exclusively sung, or at least processed-spoken, rather than harsh. And the synths --
except for the dubstep influences -- have an ambient feel overall. Curiously, I hear more reggae
in "Dub it Up" than dubstep, but maybe I don't get the meaning of "dub"? Usually this kind of
mellower stuff is my background music, but I'll be giving it a second listen, especially "Alone
Again" and "Ether" and "Reality is Less Than TV." That last has a surprising bluesy feel to the
synth-violin that is MOST unusual in Leeb and Fulber's work.
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