Sister Machine Gun - Metropolis (CD)

Varied Inustrial Sounds

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 9, 2000

Metropolis, one of Sister Machine Gun’s more recent releases, is one of the only industrial albums that I have ever heard pull off a smooth and jazzy sound all the way through, while hitting on so many different emotions and styles. This album goes... from This metal sky, a resent filled spoken word attack on the system (since turned into a comic book!), to white lightning, with a cutting industrial rockabilly sound. Sister Machine Gun front man Chris Randall marries two ends of a very interesting spectrum with this album.This album seems like the heavy side of Sister Machine Gun, backed by the techno dance power of Chris Randall’s Micronaut side. Slow, smooth, and forceful horns fit in perfectly with the quick moving techno starts, heavy guitar lines, and even a little steel guitar. Chris Randall makes bouncing classical sounding electronic beats coincide with jazzy flowing oddly dissonant tones. Through all the varying sounds of this album, Chris Randall’s vocals manage to get the different moods across, all the while steadily and coolly pushing through. This album is a great step in the evolution of Sister Machine Gun. Read more Less