{"id":263,"date":"2005-01-28T23:14:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T07:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:51:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T07:51:47","slug":"rotersand-truth-is-fanatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/rotersand-truth-is-fanatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotersand – “Truth Is Fanatic”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rotersand<\/span><\/h4>\n

Category<\/span>: Electro-pop
\nAlbum<\/span>: Truth Is Fanatic<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve wracked my brain for weeks trying to figure out why someone would like this CD. And, after all that time, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m really capable of figuring it out.<\/p>\n

Rotersand, which apparently features members of 1AM and The Fair Sex, seems to be less than the sum of its parts. On the surface, they deliver just another variety of generic synthpop tracks, tarted up with the latest pounding drums. But, from the word on the street, I figured there\u2019d have to be more than that. I\u2019d listen again and again to the same tracks droning on endlessly, trying to figure out what someone would find interesting about these same tired electronic pop clich\u00e9s laid over static noise and strange sounds. For the life of me, I can\u2019t see it. It seems like so much recycled Covenant and VNV Nation to me. Though tracks like \u201cMerging Oceans\u201d, \u201cLifelight\u201d, and \u201cElectronic World Transmission\u201d seem like decent enough club singles, there\u2019s nothing new or relevant to them.<\/p>\n

Never do the tracks really move far outside the realm of synthpop or rave-sounding club pop. But, when it does, it ends up seeming disconcerting rather than being a relief. Tracks like \u201cOne Level Down\u201d come off as strange and misplaced and \u201cHush\u201d seems to be nothing more than vapid treacle, fit only for easy-listening radio stations, and physically painful to listen to.<\/p>\n

Some songs move past the simple generic nature of the music and become truly offensive. \u201cSocial Distortion\u201d, featuring Sina H\u00fcbner of Pzycho Bitch \u201cfame\u201d, has to be one of the most rancid pieces of shit I\u2019ve ever heard in my entire life. Her wretched, moaning, desperately \u201ccome-hither\u201d spoken-word \u201cvocals\u201d tear at my brain with every listen, making me wince and fidget in a room by myself. I\u2019d be embarrassed to be caught listening to such juvenile trash publicly. It makes me wonder how this trollop still has a career and why anyone would employ her to work on their album in any capacity.<\/p>\n

All in all, I have no basis to really recommend or even discourage one from listening to this album, except for the case of \u201cSocial Distortion\u201d and \u201cHush\u201d. There is nothing pertinent here to listen to, despite claims by some that this is an album of merit. I am hard-pressed to find anything even memorable after several listens, despite trying desperately. And I can\u2019t imagine mine will be the only case of feeling like this.<\/p>\n

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from ReGen Magazine (~2\/2005)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rotersand Category: Electro-pop Album: Truth Is Fanatic I\u2019ve wracked my brain for weeks trying to figure out why someone would like this CD. And, after all that time, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m really capable of figuring it out. Rotersand, which apparently features members of 1AM and The Fair Sex, seems to be less than the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-regen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}