This maxi-EP from the mysterious Silent Music Club is inspired by Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451 novel-- a future vision of a society where books are forbidden by a totalitarian regime. The Sirens of Silence captures much of the dense, nightmarish quality of the story through dark, relentless, sequenced music, topped with distorted shouted words. The lyrics are twisted, mostly negative, and strung together on the lyric sheet withoutspacespunctuationorcapitalisation, which makes them difficult to read--but that was probably the intent. The EP makes for challenging listening, unless you're a NIN or Sheep on Drugs fan, and is probably best appreciated once you've read the book.
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The Phantom Tollbooth 2000Reviewed by Todd BallardThe Silent Music Club is an interesting blend of New Wave and pseudo-industrial pop music. Interestingly, the album boasts a mid 80's, Pet Shop Boys versus Depeche Mode sound mixed with a more contemporary industrial edge somewhat like early Dietiphobia. The album concept is the thought provoking novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The tale is of a man named Montag, who leaves off his…Similar sounding releases
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