Audiogalaxy.com, July, 1999
Full Blown Kirk
Trip-Hop / Industrial-Metal / Electro-Jazz / Gothic Dream-Pop
This isn't fusion. This is arc welding. The way Full Blown Kirk juxtaposes conventional styles, they don't blend - they build. Pillars of Trip-Hop anchor Electro-Jazz girders with bolts of Goth-Rock. A glossy sheet of Dream-Pop is riveted onto a rough slab of Industrial-Metal. This is Experimental at it's finest, aimed not at concocting new styles but at constructing unique individual works.
The only constants are Alison Scola's and Krista Tortora's voices -- smoky, sinuous, and darkly sweet. It's a sultry melody over the harsh Industrial grindings of Sheep, a velvety duet in the electric carnival blues of Sleepy Venus, a loungey siren's call clicking into Unconscious Mind's ambient groove, moody vocal gymnastics in the darkly trippy Mars, a psychotic soliloquy in the macabre, noisy Goth of Grave, and almost Scat with an occasional sugary sing-song in the schizophrenic Horehound. Similar sounds can be heard from Bjork, Miranda Sex Garden, Switchblade Symphony, and Massive Attack.
-- David McArthur
Images/Design © Teresa
Kiplinger, 1997.