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- Date Released: July 29, 2003
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Projekt / Iris
Ever wonder what Siouxsie Sioux would sound like on Thorazine?
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We Say...
The one-woman project of Bangladesh-born artist Shikhee, Android Lust blends goth textures, electronic atmospheres and industrial beats into songs as propulsive as they are unsettling. A prettier hate machine than Nine Inch Nails' debut, Android Lust's third album The Dividing nonetheless taps into the same pool of anxiety, self-loathing and raw sexuality. Throughout, Shikhee switches off between seductive whispers and moaning melodies, sounding something like Siouxsie Sioux on Thorazine. Musical reference points include NIN, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy and Dead Can Dance, but the music is crafted with such vision and skill it never feels derivative.
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They Say...
Android Lust is just one person, Shikhee by name, and in the tradition of such auteurs as Trent Reznor, she may have a guest performer here or there, but this is all her vision and band, and she does a great job at it as well. The Reznor connection isn't too far off when it comes to Android Lust's music -- Shikhee is clearly a fan of his industrial/goth/metal fusions and experiments and happily applies the same sense of recombination to her own work. Notably, though, unlike all the wannabes that bubbled up after The Downward Spiral hit it big, Shikhee's own combinations of wounded emotion and rampaging anger taps into the same sense of romantic apocalypse instead of just flailing for its own sake. Her sense of sometimes hot and sometimes cold, explicitly female anger and lust calls to mind everyone from Marianne Faithfull to Toni Halliday, while the combination of everything from Middle Eastern melodies to nervous Depeche Mode-styled keyboards demonstrates a similar sense of wide-ranging inspiration. The unsettled rush of "Panic Wrought," the combination of stabbing bass and woozy, bansheelike synth wails on "Stained," and "Another Void" and its mix of chopped-up guitar melodies and keening strings over a roiling beat are all stellar examples of how smart and sensitive her skills are. Meanwhile, the stentorian but chilled pace of "Follow" is as good a portrait of sheer obsession and entrapment into a relationship as any, in the perceived genre or out of it. When Shikhee hits a full-on dancefloor stride with songs like "The Want" and "Unbeliever," it's as good a sign as any that an electronic body music revival and reinterpretation is back on the cards, as well as being in very good hands.
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Division |
3:24 |
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| 02. | |
Kingdom of One |
3:40 |
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| 03. | |
Panic Wrought |
6:03 |
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| 04. | |
Follow |
5:26 |
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The Want |
4:13 |
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| 06. | |
Stained |
4:28 |
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| 07. | |
Unbeliever |
5:19 |
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| 08. | |
Another Void |
4:32 |
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| 09. | |
Fall to Fragments |
3:42 |
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| 10. | |
Sex and Mutilation |
2:28 |
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| 11. | |
Burn |
2:24 |
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11 Total Tracks, 45:39 Total Length
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Credits
- Alan Douches - Mastering // Lew DelGatto - Flute // Android Lust - Main Performer // Larry Bentley - Engineer // Scott Slapin - Viola // Christopher Jon - Drums // Christopher Jon - Keyboards // Christopher Jon - Conceptual Assistance
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