Each time I listen to this, I understand just how much the Hacker needs Miss Kittin. Her track “Masterplan” is the only one with anything verging on intensity or interest. Sadly, even with the Hacker’s skills, he feels lost with the other vocalists. Without a singer, his experiments tend to wander a bit much, with little to show for all the wandering.
His tracks are decent, passable, but they never reach the giant nature he wants. Songs like “The Brutalist” fail due to an extensive track time (almost 9 minutes) with nearly nothing to show for its considerable length at the end. In fact, the only time he succeeds with a buildup (besides the Miss Kittin track) is the song “Village of the Damned”. Everything he strove for in the other tracks is met on this one. Had the other tracks on this album contained this level of quality, I’d highly recommend it.
As it stands though, most of the songs are just forgettable. Excluding those two tracks, the rest of it grows tiresome. It gets difficult to get through due to a lack of excitement, of sameness. Vocalists can’t add much when the backing track is so weak.
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