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Title: American Psycho
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Artist: thecanary
Genre: Electronica: IDM
Reviewed by: xylyx on August 14, 2007 (All reviews by xylyx)

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1Overall Description
This is very reminiscent of some of Atari Teenage Riot's stuff and would likely find an audience with fans of that group. The mixture of pounding gabber kicks with the amen break alongside guitar riffs and plentiful snippets from American Psycho, certainly get across the point that the artist was not in a happy frame of mind when this was made. Overall, it's not doing anything new in this style, but it does what it set out to do and is worth checking out for fans of this style.
 
2Creativity Description
It's not pushing any boundaries and pretty much stays in familiar territory for tracks in this style. The use of vocal snippets from American Psycho certainly add interest to the piece as a whole (it would definitely suffer interest-wise without them).
 
3Arrangement Description
There is enough change up to retain interest, although I think the break in the middle where it was just the speech and some fx was a little long and caused a minor loss of 'momentum'. Other than that, nothing particularly problematic to note.
 
4Sound Quality Description
The only issue I had here was that the electric guitar sample didn't sound too good and was too quiet in the mix to really impact in the way I would have expected. A crunchier, more extreme metal type sound (Fear Factory style) would have worked perfectly for this and made for an even more aggressive track.

The general mix was fine with decent use of the stereo field and the track as a whole offered no audible problems.
 
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