Home Video

Category: Electro-pop
Album: Citizen EP

I can’t say that I’m much of a fan of the slow, mellow, atmospheric groove music that makes its way around. I never cared much for Underworld except for “Dirty Epic” and I shouldn’t really like Home Video. But I do.

There’s just something about the lamenting nature of the music, its quiet solitude, its strangely gentle vocals that draw the listener in and make them accept the music for what it is.

It’s not something you sing along to or listen to in the car (unless you want to drift off to sleep at the wheel), but it’s calming to listen to the groovy Underworld-funk-meets-A Perfect Circle-moaning-vocals or listening to the repetitive hat-snare combination and peppy funk bass lines that make you wish it would just kick up into a strong guitar-filled chorus. At least just once, so you could feel like the songs carried the power they deserve with the emotional impact they have.

But they continue along, combining their minimalist electro and poppy drum machine programming with dark ambient drones and cold, saddening vocals that you never quite focus on, instead taking in the whole of the concoction and marveling at how expert all of it seems when combined. And, most importantly, it never runs too long or breaks into just being monotonous repetition.

If someone is looking for some dark, emotional electronic pop music, Home Video may be the band to check up on, because one could do much worse than to invest in the cold quiet simplicity of this EP.

 

from ReGen Magazine (~2004-2005)