Reality By Deception
Sonic Animation
(Sputnik Records)
Reported by Bing Thursday, February 14 2002
Sonic Animation are possibly Australia’s answer to Death In Vegas or The Crystal Method. Over the course of their releases and live shows these three acts have all created for themselves a sub genre of their own. Not exactly dance music, not exactly rock. But it is these places, lodged somewhere in between conventional genres, where the most exciting music is often created.
Reality By Deception is easily recognizable sound wise, obviously taking its ques from where their September 2000 debut release Orchids For The Afterworld left off, but it is far from stale.
The new album grew out of the intense period that followed their said debut. National tours, Aria’s and Dance Music Awards, on top of movie and TV sound tracking. Plus a Big Day Out tour, a Channel V Music Bus tour and a crazy cover of Culture Clubs Do You Really Want To Hurt Me left them only six months to think about where Reality should go. But the time on the road did allow them a lot of time to play live and interact with their fans. This became the foundation for the new albums’ material.
Never a band to be labeled one dimensional, Reality By Deception is an absolute plethora of shifting sounds and musical styles.
No Gravity On Jupiter is the opening track and it really makes the listener sit up and take notice. It’s a funky break beat number coupled with an eiry Doctor Who sound-alike melody over the top. This is the first of many songs that started life as a live track, but in the studio it grew layers, depth and many Jupiter (analogue keyboard) samples. The drifting female vocal that drops into the first breakdown is nothing short of breathtaking.
Track two E-Ville features the screaming vocals of Shihad’s Jon Toogood and is Sonic Animations finest rock moment to date. “What are you afraid of? Is it me?” Well, now that you mention it guys, yes it is!
Super Showbiz Star sees Sonic Animation turn their focus to the funny. Musically the pace slows up quiet a lot and the art of storytelling is switched on. SSS is the story of a wannabe rap star who can’t actually write a good rhyme. Searching for his true calling he eventually finds his place in a boy band. Musical detailing is added to this song by nu-school breaks master EK with some fine cut
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