Earbuzz.com, January, 2000
CD Review
Dream like beauty with eastern flavors mixed with hypnotic techno and dark styling. Hauntingly intense and driven with perfect drum programming. Mystical music sounds. This is instrumental based mesmo=music (for mesmerizing) with mixed back effected superb vocal lines that contribute more as an instrument than as a narrative vocal part - although the vocals are ever-present. Full Blow Kirk has used great production values and approach to their art that pushes boundaries. Their album, "Zero Day", has tremendous club potential, yet the sound on top of the drums and grooves is ethereal new age mixed with thrash flavors and, at times, harsh lyrical content that sings of death and pain - 'I'm not too weak to throw a dagger your way' - but overall compelling and touching. The soprano voices soar about the mix and give the impression that their performance itself is given on incredible clouds, as in track 10, "Holocene", which uses the last minute of the CD for a reverbed attractive female voice, singing nothing but 'dee daa, DA etc.. ' within here sincere and casual performance. The vocals are sweet and impactful - the music grooves. Great record - thought provoking.
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