Cities And Faces

Well well, I personally never heard of that band before. They play an electronic Gothic Metal which is quite uninteresting to say the least. Basically the keyboard is ever-present and in front of the sound spectrum (if there is such a thing), with some nice riffs and electronic melodies in the back. The overall doesn't sound so metal, except for the riffs maybe, but the big problem here is not the music itself (although unoriginal as hell) but more the singer. He's not bad really, but his accent is very very pronounced, and on some sentence it's difficult not to laugh. The lyrics also sound weird, although I cannot figure out half of it due to the accent of the singer. What's for sure is that you must love keyboards and electronic stuff to appreciate Nude, cause the keyboards are more present than the guitars which are just here to play a few riffs in the back and put a "metal" label to the band. The choirs are a bit clumsy and should have been avoided too. The songs are very flat, probably due to the singer who sings always in the same tone, barely singing actually, more like talking on the songs. There's no real hook to them, the song sound like already heard before, but with better vocals and better song writing too :). In the end the band doesn't display anything new, except some overused keyboard work maybe. So in the end the problem is that I find this album very boring, it's always the same tone, the same structures, the same riffs, the same accent.... etc etc. Like one long, quickly boring song. Actually I think that after 3 listens of that album I've really earned some chocolate or any kind of reward :). There are lots of excellent Gothic acts out there, that are far more original and far more interesting than this band. Of course if you need to get all Gothic bands out there, you can probably find worse than Nude, but I fail to see the edge on this band, maybe with a more varied song-writing, intelligible lyrics and more life like vocals, then only maybe...