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- Date Released: February 29, 2000
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Industrial
- Label: Metropolis Records
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Covenant is a Swedish electro-industrial dance-pop trio consisting of Eskil Simonsson, Joakim Montelius and Clas Nachmanson. Their sound has been compared to that of a poppier Front 242, or maybe Prodigy. I'd say they're more like a cross between the chilly hookiness of Kraftwerk and the portentous self-importance of Laibach. The problem is that their hooks aren't as hooky as Kraftwerk's, and their self-importance isn't as justified as Laibach's. Simonsson's deep, chesty voice and dour delivery lend a certain weight to the songs, but the lyrics aren't often capable of supporting that weight; if you're going to deliver lines like "Dead stars/Still burn/Dead still/Stars burn," you'd better either be singing a very worthwhile tune or you'd better be well buried in the mix beneath a butt-stomping beat. That said, there are some fine examples of old-school jackhammer industrialism here ("Afterhours" is a good one), as well as some very interesting textures ("Helicopter"). This album isn't bad, but it sometimes comes across as just a bit silly. Which does not seem to be what they were going for.
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| 01. |  |
Like Tears in Rain |
5:51 |
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| 02. | |
No Man's Land |
5:06 |
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| 03. | |
Afterhours |
5:02 |
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| 04. | |
Helicopter |
5:44 |
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| 05. | |
Tour de Force |
4:45 |
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| 06. | |
Unforgiven |
4:43 |
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| 07. | |
Humility |
4:35 |
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| 08. | |
Dead Stars [Version] |
5:12 |
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| 09. | |
One World One Sky |
5:01 |
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| 10. | |
Still Life |
6:50 |
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| 11. | |
You Can Make Your Own Music |
4:35 |
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11 Total Tracks, 57:24 Total Length
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