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Title: Singer crafts mic-cord noose
Review: Ikon is considered 'goth' I guess, and I picked this up years after it appeared, but it's decent enough dark rock. This was the first singer, Michael C, about the most truly depressed man in rock history. Sounding 100% like Ian Curtis, he goes through some lyrics that sound significantly less than anything Curtis penned, and yet the music saves the band again.The production is good, most of the songs have a nice, fat heavy bass, a pounding drum machine (though they used a real drummer sometimes) and a lot of it sounds like a very early, very depressed U2.The guy just finally gets on with it and actually writes a song called 'Suicide'. As if the previous 20 or so songs weren't about how unhappy he is, he just flat tells us. He later split with the band; one wonders why.I think A Moment in Time is a much stronger disc than this, but this is pretty close in sound and tone. The singer is very depressed, yet the music never is--it's actually driving, sometimes...hopeful.
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