Released
1997

Label
Reality Records
Black Noise

Reviewed by
Kim Alexander

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Peter Blackwell

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Last Edit/Update
01 July, 1999

Glass Eden

An Organic-Industrial Experience

Track Listing

1. give up
2. sheep
3. enough
4. human
(click to read the video review)
5. hymn 13
6. power
7. real
8. goodbye
9. underneath
(Plus five hidden tracks)

    A great deal of this release is metal-edge-industrial with plenty of angst, upfront and in your face lyrics and great vocals which can be heard in the opening track, give up, real, and human ("lies, illusions, hope that transforms into pain"), which is heartily Reznoresque.
    The works present a good amount of diversity in form and sound such as the tracks hymn 13, which uses piano, heaven helping, classical backdrop and swirls, "my only friend is apathy, sweet apathy", real, with its electro-chugging, changes in timbre, guitar blending into sudden head on stops then picking up again with good vocals, and power, with a taste of funk mixed with guitar rhythms, percussion -- a slow rock track.
    Enough is one of the obscure tracks on the disk.  The lyrics are absolutely astonishing in terms of driving sex, tasty guitar, drums and defensive vocals.  I think this one may very well be a parody on love, sex and truth.
    The hidden tracks range from the whimsical sounds and female vocals with intermittent hard driven pulsing industrial of track #11 "Say Something", to the final short interlude with a Brit in #13 where the voice simply says: "So, from all of here, good night, sleep well, and have an absolutely super day tomorrow. Kiss Kiss."  [audience laughter], of which I think might be a sample from some Monty Python film.
    From what I have heard on this release, I'd say Peter Blackwell is just bursting at the seams with material to release and rightly so, he is intense in his expression and has a great amount of dynamic and creative sounds in the proving ground of Glass Eden.

Read  Lyrics,
at Glass Eden site.
they kick ass.