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Exile Paradise

 
Album Review: Exile Paradise

  • Artist: In Strict Confidence
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: June 06, 2006
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Electronica

Review

Listening to this well-crafted, occasionally hooky, and often downright lovely album, one can imagine the pierced and leathered industrial and EBM cognoscenti sniffing in derision. In some ways, In Strict Confidence is a band that opposes everything its members hold dear: how are you going to épater les bourgeois using melodies, a female singer with a pretty voice, and songs written in major keys, for crying out loud? But for those who enjoy the basic elements of this musical genre but get tired of all the cookie-cutter bands out there plying slight variations on the same snarling electro riff -- and who don't mind a nice melodic hook now and then -- Exile Paradise comes as a real breath of fresh air. Highlights include the lovely "Promised Land," the subtly complex "Something to Remember," and "Regicide," a song that beautifully balances the group's twin tendencies towards aggro harshness and pop melodicism. Their ability to write English lyrics that aren't embarrassing is an added bonus. Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
The Harder They Come... In Strict Confidence (1:19)
Promised Land In Strict Confidence (5:40)
Forbidden Fruit In Strict Confidence (4:14)
Fading Light In Strict Confidence (6:01)
Wintermoon In Strict Confidence (5:07)
Manchmal Redest Du im Schlaf In Strict Confidence (6:18)
Regicide In Strict Confidence (5:20)
Der Teufel In Strict Confidence (6:06)
Away from Here In Strict Confidence (5:38)
In Favilla In Strict Confidence (7:59)
Something to Remember In Strict Confidence (5:54)
...the Harder They Fall In Strict Confidence (3:16)

Credits

John Cremer (Mastering), Antje Schulz (Audio Sculpture), Antje Schulz (Group Member), Dennis Ostermann (Audio Sculpture), Dennis Ostermann (Group Member), Olaf Wollschläger (Engineer), Olaf Wollschläger (Mixing), Jörg Schelte (Audio Sculpture), Jörg Schelte (Group Member), Ingo Römling (Artwork), Ingo Römling (Digital Illustration)
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Exile Paradise
Studio album by In Strict Confidence
Released May 2006 (EU)
June 2006 (US)
Genre electronic music
Label Metropolis Records (US)
In Strict Confidence chronology
Holy - the Hecq Destruxxion (2004) Exile Paradise
(2006)

Exile Paradise is In Strict Confidence's 9th full length album.

The album is sold as both two CDs and a DVD; and as a single CD (disc one).

The opening and closing tracks on disc one, "The harder they come…" and "…the harder they fall" are short instrumental tracks of a similar style.

Contents

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "The harder they come…"
  2. "Promised Land"
  3. "Forbidden Fruit"
  4. "Fading Light"
  5. "Wintermoon"
  6. "Manchmal redest du Im Schlaf"
  7. "Regicide"
  8. "Der Teufel"
  9. "Away From Here"
  10. "In Favilla"
  11. "Something to Remember"
  12. "…the harder they fall."

Disc two

  1. "Samael"
  2. "A Single Touch"
  3. "Blind Spot"

Disc three (CD-ROM)

  1. Videoclip "Forbidden Fruit"
  2. Remix Kits "Promised Land" & "Forbidden Fruit"
  3. Instrumental Song "Miss Your Voice"
  4. Desktop wallpapers
  5. Link Section


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