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| Surgyn - Envy (Digital World Audio)
Tracklist 01. Artifice [intro] 02. Limousine 03. Green Heart 04. Stiletto 05. Feed Me Fame 06. Martyr 07. King of Crows 08. Needles 09. Insidious 10. Hollywood Death Scene 11. Melancholia
Release Date 10th June 2014
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Press Release For those fans of Scotland’s finest electro-industrial export SURGYN, the wait for a new full-length record has been a long and impatient one since the breathtaking debut “Vanity” – a long hungry wait nurtured only by the album-teaser “Feed Me Fame” released as a digital-single last summer to coincide with SURGYN’s UK tour with COMBICHRIST. But those expecting SURGYN’s second album to be little more than “Vanity v2.0” will be in for a big surprise. As SURGYN themselves have suggested, where “Vanity” was about appropriating the best sounds of the industrial bands they grew up listening to, new album “Envy” is more of an experiment with the framework of the sounds and styles they want to operate within now. Where “Vanity” was bruising and beat-driven, “Envy” is an entirely different beast – beginning in familiar territory for the first few songs like “Limousine”, “Feed Me Fame”, “Stiletto” and catchy electropop melodies of “Green Heart” before taking the listener down a dark and twisted path through former live favorite “King Of Crows” reborn here in darkness, the quirky “Needles”, the epic “Hollywood Death Scene” and the reflective 80s-tinged electronica of “Melancholia” (that could almost have been written by PET SHOP BOYS) to deliver an entirely unexpected and brilliantly eclectic “second act” to the album. Writing a second album as instantly engaging as “Vanity” was always going to be an…*ahem* “unenviable” task – but with “Envy” SURGYN have risen far above and beyond that challenge. Born in the ghetto of industrial, this is a duo whose sounds, looks and sensibilities have always made them likely to eclipse their “scene origins” and appeal to a much wider audience. “Envy” is the logical progression of the “Beauty Is Agony” manifesto and aesthetic established on “Vanity” – multi-faceted and musically-diverse, while always retaining the immediately-recognisable sonic signature of SURGYN. An album that only they could have written, yet an album guaranteed to confound all ...Read the whole post...
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