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The Vanishing

The Vanishing
“Still Lifes Are Falling”
(Gold Standard Labs)

Dark, forboding industrial electrobeats are the specialty served up by this San Francisco trio. Taking a decidedly bleaker and blacker tone than their debut effort, the beats seem to be front and center, consistently overpowering the band’s female vocals. Vocals in this band seem to almost function as the background accessory like they were shouted from cavernous depths owned by the synths and drum machines that pull the strings. Occasionally a lone saxophone sneaks in. I don’t know where he came from. But all in all, The Vanishing sound a bit like electro-band Ruby gone industrial. Digital Hardcore’s Hanin Elias steps in to remix the final track of this album, “Still Lifes” (shouldn’t that be “lives”?), one of the best tracks on this dark soundscape for electro-hell.

Mike

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