VNV Nation - Judgement
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Music CD Cover Artist: VNV Nation Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-04-10 Music Label: Metropolis Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Judgement Album
Free Music Review: Still Mediocre a Year Later
Hit: 2 Stars
*Edited on 6/26/08*
In my previous review, I had claimed that "Judgement" was almost wholly without merit; in retrospect, I may have been overly harsh. If I could, I would change my review to three stars.
Track one adds nothing. Tracks two through six range from tolerable to good -- "The Farthest Star" and "Testament" are fairly solid VNV tracks that I would have expected before they released the failure that was "Matter + Form." "Descent" is the closest they've come to making a follow-up to "Second Skin" (which is a good thing), and "Momentum" is a fun dance cut. "Nemesis" is this album's kinda-aggressive song, which would have done well with a second verse and less of those warbling high-pitch synths around the chorus.
Unfortunately, after that, the album just turns into garbage. "Secluded Spaces" and "Illusion" are just crappy pop ballads without redeeming qualities, "Carry You" is still a crappy pop song disguised as EBM, and "As It Fades" might be more tolerable if it didn't follow a pile of crap. Let me clarify some things -- VNV Nation can do slow songs well, as is evidenced by "Carbon," "Tempest," and "Distant (Rubicon II)." They can even do softer (lyrically, not musically) songs -- "Beloved" might not have been the best song on "Futureperfect," but it certainly wasn't the worst. However, when they combine the two, it usually ends in failure, as it has for the last three albums.
If this was a six-track EP that ended with "Nemesis," I'd give this 4 stars, maybe even 5 stars just for being better than "Matter + Form" and reassuring me that VNV Nation can still make good music. As a full 10 songs, though -- 5/10 isn't really VNV quality. They can do better.