Gathering, The - Infected Mushroom

Advantages: Dark brooding and moody with beautiful moments
Disadvantages: Just like a gothic teenager - not to everyones taste

First outing from Infected Mushroom and what do we get? Dark neo-gothic tinged industrial soundscapes, pounding drums with pulsating basslines, guitar stabs, orchestral passages, positively frightning vocal samples and that's all just the first track "Release Me"! Moving on from the sinister opening things lighten up ever so slightly but this album still has a more paronoid edgy sound than their later albums. IM are already showing their pure musical ...
...crescendos and keeping the musical ideas flowing the whole time. They are nowhere near as repetitive as other artists in this genre and indeed in almost all dance/electronic music. In fact "The Gathering" is probably their only album that actually falls squarely inside the PsyTrance pigeonhole as their later work develops their quirky sound into something unique and is forever going off in tangents, let's not forget the singing! There is enough guitar ... Read review