Released
1997
Label
Sanction Records
Reviewed by
Kim Alexander
Contact
Sanction Music
9 Brookdale Rd
Arlington MA
02174-3023
Visit
Last Edit/Update
25 April, 1998
Canister
Blame
Track Listing
1. Dread
2. Empty
3. One Word
4. Light
5. Rapture
6. Forgotten
7. Truth
8. Ice
Boston’s Canister plays a gritty,
darkly-tinged blend of post punk and rock. The band draws on elements of gothic and
industrial music, combining heavy basslines, crisp electronics, robotic percussion and
textured guitar noise with dark, abrasive vocals to
form an innovative and unique sound which reviewers note has “no real obvious
comparisons."
--Press Information
Canister is a guitar-drum driven, a darker type of industrial "near the edge of goth-rock" sound. Don't get me wrong here, their guitars are "quite" tasty, and add a fine element to their sound, buzzing and temptuous. The vocals are good as well, clear, perhaps lightly treated, on key and fit right in to the overall sound of the instrumental sonics. The drums are excellent, rolling, deep, and full, as can be heard in Empty, which is an even darker composition, "...emptiness is not a curse, sick of lying laughing dying, living crying all my time...". This CD reminds me a tad of Black Ocean Drowning, (Dossier Records), relative to the guitar and vocals, and overall tempo/beats of their sound. Not for the light-hearted, definitely for the more hard of core in the crowd. Don't miss them if they play live, Cannister has a very appealing overall sound.
