Nerbe Exhibit

Category: Industrial
Album: The Horror Of Amusement

I hate to be unable to say anything good about a CD. If I’m unable to find any enjoyable quality in something, I want to be able to rip it apart and be as brutally honest as the CD deserves. Either way, Nerve Exhibit has left me with very little to say.

Like a softer-spoken, more poppy early Skinny Puppy, filtered through fuzz, there is talent in what is made from these tracks, but they never really pay off. The simple sequences that build towards what one hopes is a ripping chorus or additional complexity that will suddenly unfold before you, instead, leave you wanting, continuing on as they were for several minutes, whatever changes there are never bringing the satisfaction that one is awaiting from the tracks.

The songs continue to exist in the realm of experimentation without being fulfilling. It makes me think that there is a talent in Nerve Exhibit, but it’s being wasted by not unleashing it fully. One of the most important parts of music is its complex changes and movements. And while this music has no movement and no change, it will forever be relegated to the background.

All I can offer Nerve Exhibit is the hope that a more complex movement is learnt and that these tracks can fulfill the potential that is waiting there to be freed.

 

from ReGen Magazine (~8/2004)