A few issues back I reviewed the previous CD from Nihil project and concluded that it wasn’t half bad. This time, I am not quite sure what they really want to tell the world, because this is some of the most stylistically confusing music I have heard for a long time. They have set out to make a sort of British folk music hybrid with a touch of 60’s psychedelia, electronic and various other undefinable elements you would think was unmixable with folk music.

I am a supporter of crossing musical borders, but I am not sure that I deel that this was a successful attempt. Firstly, the omnipresent vocal is rather flawewd, and the production is unusually messy and incomprehensible, which makes you feel that you are listening to music that has been thrown into a food processor and blended while you are listening to it. If they had tried to restrict themselves a bit and focused on fewer elements within each track, it might have been passable. As it is, this is too tiresome to attract any sort of lasting interest.

© 2007 Tarkus Magazine

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