The Contino Sessions

I love electronic rock so I do really dig this. I'm not sure it really has the relevance or influence to justify being on this list though in spite of that.

Not really my type of music. Reminds me a bit of Muse

I was somewhat intrigued by the minimalist trip hop of the first track but didn’t like the vocals on the second and was soon bored. Some of the sounds are inventive but there was not enough here to carry my interest throughout the album.

I knew nothing of this album before listening. And I started off thinking that it could be really good. I dug the first few songs, maybe even the first half.

But it got very tedious in the second half and I just didn't enjoy it that much after that.

I might listen to this one again, but not soon.

Enjoyed this, especially the guest appearances from Bobby Gilipse, iggy pop and Jim Ried added to the overall album sound, added to my list.

Very odd, and right at the junction between rock and electronic music, which is an interesting place to be. Iggy Pop showing up was good, albeit strange, but Dot Allison guested on my favourite song - dirge

I was pretty bored throughout listening to this. Hard to understand why this made the 1001 list.

I rather liked this - shoegaze-adjacent/trip-hop. Iggy Pop's vocal was good.

I dig the wall of sound of Dirge, also about 4min in it reminds me of early Muse. Then the vocals in the second track came in and I didn't enjoy it anymore. Very repetitive soundscape.
Very distorted and experimental sounding. I'm generally enjoying everything except the vocals. It'd be a good soundtrack for a game or movie. 3*.

More mid techno. 2.5/5

Draws widely on 80s/90s British indie & post-punk influences, channelled through an electronica production and song-writing approach. Dark and heavy mostly, with distorted guitar riffs and synth leads on most songs over industrial drum/bass loops. A bit like Big Black of Nine Inch Nails, but with a bit more of a Happy Mondays dance sensibility. Iggy Pop doing a Sean Connery impression on Aisha is a treat, the slow build on the opener Dirge is draws you in, and the spacey garage track Broken Little Sister is a fuzzed out bit of psych. It's pretty derivative, but of good stuff.

I didn't think all the songs are as outstanding as others, but with Dirge, Flying and Aisha, there's much greatness to behold

When I saw that today's album was yet another electronica album, I didn't have much hope for it. When I read that it is kind of like shoegaze meets electronica, I had even less hope for it.

What I heard, however, was a rock forward style of electronica, in that a lot of the songs on this record have pretty heavy distorted guitars and bass, with underpinnings of electronica (sampling, screeches/scratches and beeps/boops). Actually, they sound a bit like the Prodigy or Primal Scream (their good album, Screamadelica, not that other shitty album of theirs we were given by this generator). The shoegaze categorization, I believe, is coming not from the musical stylings, but more from the lyrical delivery. It can be noticed in one of the only songs with lyrics, Soul Auctioneer. In this song, the singer's vocals are sang in a style similar to Bob Dylan (nasally, and with a care free attitude).

Overall, a surprisingly ok album. Most electronica albums with me fetch a 1 or 2 star rating, however, this album I will rate a 3. I didn't hate it immediately, so that's a plus. And I can hear some musical talent in most of the songs, so that's way more than I can say for any other album of that genre that I've gotten yet.

Favorite songs: Soul Auctioneer, Aisha, Dirge

Least favorite songs: Death Threat, Lever Street

3/5

This is dull.

Any album that features Iggy Pop singing "Aisha, I'm viiibraaatiiing" gets five stars by default.

Aissa- miten tiukka veto Aisha on. Muuten vähän laiskaa, 2/5.

a massive meh from me, dawg

meh

Wow. What a downer. Guess that's the point though, right? Well, fuck that. Not only is the mood consistently dour, it's consistently boring as well.

Mira que me gusta el rock progresivo, el instrumental, las canciones largas, pero los Death in Vegas NO. Lo he intentado varias veces. En este disco solo se salva para mi gusto Aisha con la voz de Iggy Pop. Prescindible excepto ese tema, le daré un 2 por que en general sería un 1 a todo más un 4 a Aisha.