Ghetto Sunrise – Ghetto Sunrise (Independent) ALBUM REVIEW

June 22, 2014

pic2.1_jpg_450x450_q85GHETTO SUNRISE IS described as a โ€œdrum and base bandโ€ in the promotional literature, and Iโ€™m happy to report that I got a cheap laugh out of that wee faux pas, which in part made up for the torture of having to listen to the Auckland groupโ€™s frankly abominable 13-track debut.

I should perhaps have taken heed of their own recommendation/warning: โ€œGhetto Sunrise bombastically [my italics] fuses hard-edged drum and bass and pulsing dubstep with smatterings of Bristol-inspired trip-hop, all under the influence of a heavy metal rhythm section.โ€ Promise, or threat?

Let us not beat around the bush: this is the worst thing Iโ€™ve heard all year. Itโ€™s an aesthetic trashcan, with the very limpest iterations of drum and bass clichรฉ vying for sonic space with rancid rapping and ineffectually grinding guitars.

ghettoAdd to that rudimentary beats, dire keyboard synths on horrid โ€œstringโ€ settings, and sound thatโ€™s so bad you wonder if it was all recorded on a $99 Transonic karaoke machine.

It makes you wonder why they even bothered. GARY STEEL

Sound = 2 Stars

Music = 1 Star

 

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Steel has been penning his pungent prose for 40 years for publications too numerous to mention, most of them consigned to the annals of history. He is Witchdoctor's Editor-In-Chief/Music and Film Editor. He has strong opinions and remains unrepentant. Steel's full bio can be found here

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