A quick recipe for you:
2 cups milk
1 New Order CD
1 Ministry CD (preferably The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste)
2 or 3 tracks by the B-52's to taste
2 or 3 horn parts to taste
Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor, and blend thoroughly. Pour into a frosty glass and enjoy your Aleixa milkshake.
That's about the best description I can come up with for this band. Or put simply...aggressive female fronted vocals over techno dance with heavy industrialized guitars. Was that simple?
This group ROCKS! Track one is more of a dance, but from there on out it gets pretty much industrial influenced. You wouldn't have guessed these styles would have blended so well, but the girls singing manage to stretch from very aggressive sounding (Purge) to remorseful (Only Roses) to downright ticked off (Pacify Me) to well, kind of upbeat and pop-ish (Await). All the while the music is relentlessly kicking with techno groove lying underneath the incredibly distorted guitars.
The lyrics here are the most solid I've ever seen in this type of music yet. Using phrases like "until I stopped to meet Jesus" and "God take me...please take me" there is not room for second guessing what their point is to every song.
Favorite tracks are Purge, Disfigured, Pacify Me and The Reflex. Yes that's right the Reflex. They covered the old 80's Duran Duran song of the same name for this album.
If you are at all into industrial/dance styles you need to check into this one from Bullet Proof Records. It's distributed through Diamante, so you can get it in any Christian book/CD shop.
8.5/10
Other coverage for this album
Decapolis 2000Reviewed by ConradDark industrial with two strong female vocalists. What you have in Aleixa is a lot of programming, huge metal guitars, and super strong female vocalists - all of which are way above average. This kills their previous release. The programming is really complex and deep. There are even horns on this album, real horns, not synthesized ones - whoa. The guitars add that hard edge to the music…Decapolis 2000Reviewed by Tom BastianThis CD opens up with what I would consider pretty much your standard techno dance song. Repeated vocals, moving beats, and complex rhythms. The first track and at various times throughout the entire CD they really take advantage of the whole stereo speaker concept, sending sounds back and forth between your speakers. I guess thats one cool thing that many techno based bands try to do. I have to…HM Magazine #79Reviewed by Doug Van PeltEver since the Stryper tribute album on Flying Tart, this band has slowly but methodically been building underground credibility. The quality vocals of Laurel Snapper meld beautifully with the looping drums and crunchy guitars. A song like "Purge," with its dance loops and techno beat would ordinarily be dismissed as dance or house music were it not for the savagely industro-metal guitars all…The Phantom Tollbooth 1999Reviewed by Steven S. BaldwinThe main musical force behind Aleixa, Kevin 131 (don't ask about the numbers), once remarked that his band bore the sound of "Debbie Gibson in a blender." A few years later, Debbie Gibson's star has been eclipsed by even younger, peppier new teen singers. Perhaps these days Kevin 131 is referring to Aleixa as "Britney Spears in a blender." Regardless, this tongue-in-cheek description is, of…Dead Zine 1999Reviewed by GrindboyIf you know Aleixa, you know what's coming. 100% ear candy. For those who haven't heard Aleixa, they're clearly a pop band gone horribly awry. Very pretty harmonized female vocals, pop/dance programming, and angrily driven guitars take the unsuspecting listener on one fun ride. Now if you read that description and wonder if it can really work, your skepticism is not unjustified! Let me tell you…Similar sounding releases
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