This is the first studio album by the band The Glitch Mob. This album ended up causing the birth of the EDM subgenre "Glitchstep" from what I hear. This album was my first real step into electronic music beyond Daft Punk. I remember first hearing Fortune Days on the bus on the way to school. That definintely did some damage to my brain. Since then I've been looking for groups like this since then. Talk about life changing...
The track list is as follows:
The anniversary edition of the album inlcudes the following tracks, all are remixes by The Glitch Mob unless specified otherwise:
To be frank, I've known this album for quite some time and it has become something of a cornerstone of my taste for electronic music. It took a long time for me to find an album I like to the level that I liked this (It wasn't until I jumped ship to Darkwave, EBM, stuff like that!). There is something special in the way this album was made that I don't think The Glitch Mob was able to make again. There is something raw and fun about it that I greatly enjoyed. The swells in this album, the use of more harsh electronic noise, the more fluid melodies in songs like Animus Vox, How to Be Eaten by a Woman - it was very special to me when I found it all!
I would love to be impartial towards the album, but I think nostalgia wins out here. I would love to revisit this album once I start making more grounds in making my own electronic music and I'd love to see if the sound still stands up to my own amateur scrutiny. I guess time will tell on that!
Overall, I think if you enjoy a harsher sound for your EDM, but you aren't quite in the mood for something in more of the Hardcore sphere, this might be the album for you if you somehow managed to miss it before
I'm going to be honest, this is an album where any track could be here, especially when we consider the anniversary edition of the album. All of them have their merits and their "best moments" in my opinion, but if I had to pick one, it HAS to be track 3 - How to be Eaten by a Woman.
The track has this really nice drop at the end of the song and I always find myself playing with the volume as it's about to hit so it can be as loud and bombast as it deserves. It just builds an insane amount of tension that I find myself enjoying so much!