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Go to the Formication website  Formication - Icons For A New Religion [Lumberton Trading Company - 2007]

Icons for a New Religion is this UK project's first non-cdr release that tries its damnest to conjure up effective, mainly beatbound, dark and creepy electronica. But sadly it comes off a little hit and miss going from good to mediocre electronica by numbers.

Let's get the good stuff out of the way first: the albums at its most effective when their sound is more slurred and hazy or stripped down of samples, as it moves towards the sort of grand darkness I think their trying to get. As dark bassy synth swell, pounce and ebb against minimalist beat patterns, or dark beat-less slides in eerier synth led cinematics and ritual technology fired dread. When it doesn’t work this comes off as a rather dated mix of their influences, there traces of Future Sound Of London, The Orb and Coil which just seem to have been audio regurgitated with little depth or originality. Stale and rather predictable American voice samples fly here, run-of-the-mill beat patterns do their stuff, as synth melodies play in a rather cliché'd manner.

So all and all some good ideas promising textures and atmosphere at play they just need to develop their sound a little more and dump the dated elements, like the frankly embarrassing samples.

Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5

Roger Batty
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