What can i say?  these guys are all over the road, obviously driving while seriously intoxicated.  It's all your old electro-industrial favorites, wrapped up into one, with a heavy dose of humor and a bottle full of whiskey.  And i like it.  God forgive me, i like it.  I think i might actually love it.

And if you're in the mood for good-humored post-electro-industrial mishmash that never takes itself even semi-seriously, you'll like it too.

I mean, how can't you like a band that has a track that is blatantly (and I mean blatantly) a complete rework of a Haujobb song?  I mean sure, Dark Illumination used to do that all the time... but boole has the guts to call the track KraftJob.  C'mon now, that's class.  They even sample a guy saying "All i know is that this violates every cannon of respectable broadcasting" (I recognize this sample I think... but i can't quite place it... Network?).

Or how about 'Disco Vampyre'.  Take one part trance, one part Velvet Acid Christ, and one part Disco, add some B-vampire movie samples and high pitched vocals... and you get yourself one fucked track.  Oh, yea, if I were in a bad mood right now this track would push me over the edge.  But I'm not... and for whatever reason, I love this track.  The chorus of "Disco Vampire... in the dance hall of the damned" (sung in the traditional Apoptygma Berserk/Evil's Toy electro-industrial style) is fucking hilarious.

And 'StreetBeater2'...  Oh my fucking dog. This track heavily samples the Sanford & Son theme song, corrupting it into a electronic/jazz hybrid overlayed with vintage Redd Fox one liners.  Wonderful,  and not even just as a 'novelty piece' - it pulls itself together into a respectable track.  Fucking brilliant track, actually. By far my favorite.

'Subversitech' is also ripping something hook, line, and sinker from another album, but i can't place my finger on exactly which one.  But they manage to make it their own, and it's actually an excellent track. It doesn't have the blatant humour of the previously described tracks, it's just good music.  And the chorus, oh dog, i swear its fucking straight from duran duran.

A few tracks in the middle of the album actually pull off a more traditional electro-industrial sound.  'Voyeur' and 'Epiphany' are both in this category, and although I swear I recognize many of the elements from other songs i've heard, they're pretty good (although not entirely to my tastes). Unfortunately, 'Greet The Sun', another track along these lines, sounds like a bad Apoptygma rip off and is a low point on the album.  That said, I do like 'ExPatriot' a lot - it's very much along the lines of one of the older, harsher Leaetherstrip tracks (it even has a repeating sample of someone saying 'American Dream' - which is so leaetherstrip it hurts).

I might be missing something on these tracks -  I assume they are serious, because they aren't as obviously meant to be camp/parody as the others.  But maybe Greet the Sun is really supposed to be a parody of Apoptygma and their ilk, and ExPatriot is really supposed to be a parody of Leaetherstrip. Who knows?  All i know for sure is that i actually do like ExPatriot, whereas Greet The Sun hurts my ears.

'Giant Robots'. Heh. Very good track.

I'm pretty sure 'Panic' is a Smiths cover... or atleast, i swear i hear the devil voice of Morrisey floating around.  But Boole pervert it into something of their own... and it's good.

I can't make heads or tails of 'Kaizen'.  I like it,  but don't ask me what's going on.  It sounds like they sampled dialogue from a kung fu movie, sped it up, reversed it, and then used it as vocals or something for a techno track.  I really have no fucking clue, but it works very well.

Oh yea, there are also two unlisted tracks at the end of the album.  The first sounds much like what you might hear if a guy was eating lunch and typing on his computer and you were sitting in his potato chip bag. Yea.

The second of these tracks was obviously just them fucking around, with lyrics straight out of a middle school potty mouth. It sort of sounds like Adam Sandler did guest vocals, actually ("I love to make you eat the things that I squeeze from my butt, but you don't like.. that kind... of thing"). A really strange song, but it does have some really good parts (like the strange rap sequences). I was going to say I hated this track, but you know, fuck it... i liked it. Or at least, I really like the second half of the track.

Overall, highly recommended for the crack addict in all of you.  But don't say i didn't warn you.

tracks
disco vampyre
kraftJob
subversitech
voyeur
epiphany
greet the sun
expatriot
giant robots
panic
streetbeater2
kaizen
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krist