Superstarved
Artist: Gravity Kills
Year: 2002
Genre: Rock
Sub-Genre: Industrial/Hard Rock
Notable Songs: Enemy, Personal Jesus
Enhanced: Nope
Cover Art/Booklet: Similar to Perversion, that washed-out, broken, smudged, grainy destroyed look with
some pictures of the band.
Details:
I remember being in highschool the last time I heard there was a new Gravity Kills album, I was at a cookout
to celebrate the end of another school year. The first album by Gravity Kills also happened to be the first CD
that I bought in a store, also being being with some friends. So I've always had a place for Gravity Kills, and
I hope to someday be an old geezer listening to these albums. In fact everytime someone would ask me what my
favourite band was, regardless of what my current favourite was at the time, I would always state that Gravity
Kills was THE band.
Anyway, now that a third album came out, I had hoped to grab it the day it came out since I've been trying to
follow the release for a while. I looked on the website one day only to see that it came out on March 19th.
So I was like "It's been out for a week!!!??". Not like they go stale or anything, but I'm weird about being
timely like that. So I immediately ordered the CD online and soon enough it arrived.
So was this release going to live up to what I had expected from them. Simply put...yes. Granted my highschool
friends are long gone for the most part and that same clique setting is no longer present, but when nostalgia
becomes ingrained with a media form, it's next to impossible to get that same feeling back. Music doesn't do
that, your friends do and the fun you choose to have. So to the best of my ability, I let the CD stand on its
own merits, and it really does hold up well. On the first listen I was still doubtful, but after only two listens
I really really liked it. So Gravity Kills can do no wrong.
Now I'm really bad at describing songs as I tend to use the words 'inventive' and 'imaginative' about 7689279y2
times, thus making you wonder if those words have any meaning any more. But the main song that blows the rest
away is Enemy. I had downloaded this song a while back on mp3.com and it really didn't wow me much, but
they must have worked on polishing the final mix some more, because the song has so much more energy now. It
really throws you back to the old days of years past.
Another song I downloaded was their cover of Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode. Again the MP3 format made me pass
it by, but now that it's on the CD, I can enjoy it for what it is. They do a really good job on this cover,
keeping the Depeche Mode quality while still branding it with the traditional Gravity Kills style.
So all in all, I'm very happy with their latest production and look forward to their future endevors. Another
remix CD perhaps? We can only hope.
Bottom Line: It's been a while since a Gravity Kills album has been released, but I knew the wait was
worth it. They produce yet another great industrial album, that holds its own against their previous two CD's.
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