Review Summary: futurepop done well but ultra boring.
With futurepop’s cheesy synthesizers, the genre’s music sometimes sounds like video game material. Such is the case with Seabound’s
Double-Crosser, in fact, the Rotersand Remix of their song ‘Scorch the Ground’ is included in Project Gotham Racing 4. What does this imply for the quality of this album though? I suppose it implies that it’s well done, that the members of Seabound know what they’re doing. It also implies that its friendly enough to play as background music in a video game, but not strong enough so as to drown out the sounds of the roaring engines. In short, it makes the perfect video game music, but apart from that, it kind of seems pointless to listen to. Yes, pointless.
Double-Crosser has it all, including thunderous beats, and flawlessly handled synthesizers. Also, the album is varied, but it’s effortlessly cohesive, much like your favorite type of glue. Another item to praise is the vocals which are shockingly passable, something uncommon in the genre of futurepop. From a technical standpoint this is a solid album, but from a listening standpoint, the music bores – the model house may look cool and sturdy by itself, but when it is stepped on, the thing shatters likes glass. A ginormous office depot may look impressive at first, but upon further inspection, it looks awful with its pasty white, featureless walls.
The album sounds lifeless, as if it was solely made to be remixed billions of times. It is an emotionless piece of work that seems great at first listen but leaves no further impact on the listener. Take, for example, the singing. It’s solid, it hits the notes, it complements the melody, but it’s absolutely desensitizing. It’s like trying to make the argument that zombies have feelings – zombies are not people, they used to be people, but now they’re walking corpses. The album is so precise that Seabound forgot to make it enjoyable, and that is a silly shame.
