It's a live album full of their newer stuff, with a second album of remixes and unreleased stuff.
The live versions of their new stuff still don't impress me. VNV Nation's new stuff just doesn't seem as intense as their older, pre-Futureperfect stuff. Even Futureperfect had a bit of punch to it. It seems like their music hasn't been as moving lately. It seems like their songs are very static now. Before a song could start out with a nice, mellow intro, then descend into chaos and vice versa. Their newer music stays the same all the way through. It sounds very carefully measured, and very mechanical. And here I am criticizing an "industrial" band for sounding mechanical! I certainly don't blame them for changing. Obviously nobody should be expected to remain artistically static their entire career. Some of their hooks are still nice. The songs just seem to have lost that dynamism of the PTF2012 and Empires era. Am I the only one who feels this way?
The live versions of their new stuff still don't impress me. VNV Nation's new stuff just doesn't seem as intense as their older, pre-Futureperfect stuff. Even Futureperfect had a bit of punch to it. It seems like their music hasn't been as moving lately. It seems like their songs are very static now. Before a song could start out with a nice, mellow intro, then descend into chaos and vice versa. Their newer music stays the same all the way through. It sounds very carefully measured, and very mechanical. And here I am criticizing an "industrial" band for sounding mechanical! I certainly don't blame them for changing. Obviously nobody should be expected to remain artistically static their entire career. Some of their hooks are still nice. The songs just seem to have lost that dynamism of the PTF2012 and Empires era. Am I the only one who feels this way?
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It seems that VNV has started to focus on sending a more positive message, and instead of leaving the sound of the music the same, they've opted to mellow out in accordance with what their songs are doing. Less complaining about humans killing trees and more hope for the future for something completely ambiguous.
I'm saying this because Combichrist sounds like a harder, meaner, Empires VNV some of the time. Their lyrics are extremely explicit, though. I don't want our kids to listen to them until they're 40. XD
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And I don't think we'll have to worry about our kid's listening to Combichrist. They'll find so many more ways to piss us off than we could ever imagine.
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I imagine, coming from two creative people like us, our kids will figure out ways to piss us off that have never been invented by any kid ever before.
ILU! I miss you!
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On the heavy.