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Victim\'s Family | Apocalicious

Cultivated insanity doesn't work
CD, Let Them Eat Records/Konkurrent

Tekst: Bas Ickenroth

Publicatiedatum: 24 oktober 2002

Cultivated insanity doesn't work. It sounds too predictable, it fits too well. Never thought I had to use those tags with arnarchistic jazzcore gods Victim's Family. But, this new album Apocalicious — which has to be the best album title of the year — leaves no other choice. Victim's Family, always known for their hyperneurotic outbursts — somewhere between Dead Kennedys and Primus on speed — are older, and maybe wiser, but, musically, this albums lacks the spontaneous idiocy of Voltage & Violets or White Bread Blues. And that aspect was the precise aspect that made the band so special. Not that everything is that different: The lyrics are still the same mixture of paranoia and sarcasm, like meeting an old friend. And apart from the fact that the insanity doesn't sound very natural anymore, almost nothing has changed. Which also means that the music doesn't really fit in today's zeitgeist of angry nu-metal and emocore. I wouldn't go as far as calling Victim's Family obsolete, but if they want to play a more serious role in today's music, like they did some ten years ago, something has to change. I hope they're able to pull it off.

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