CANCER KILLING GEMINI - It Only Hurts When We Breathe
Written by Branimir Lokner
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
CANCER KILLING GEMINI " It Only Hurts When We Breathe "
( Self - released ) 2010.
CD
Various genres - USA
Even that name Cancer Killing Gemini associate on some industrial/grind tendencies, or group with similiar attitudes, a reality is quite different.
CKG is projest of one man - Eric Michael Cohen, and his various musical tastes are putted in album materials, entitled " It Only Hurts When We Breathe". As a person with previous music experience and also owner/leader/part of some projects/groups, he tested himself in new project/album, where is complete composer,performer and producer too. There are 10 tracks on album, and Eric offers variety of genres options as a industrial, electro, pop , and post grunge as well. Melodic tendencies are also present in highest possible level, so finally we can find here many modern solutions and traces. " It Only Hurts When We Breathe" is a listenable product, and what is more important ,a modern issue with clear musical messages and realization.
Rating : 8 / 10
C / o : www.cancerkillinggemini.com
Massachusetts is one of the most Europe-influenced States without the faults of New York; more noble, clean, advanced and refined, the Boston area does represent Cancer Killing Gemini's music and attitude, fusing Pop, Industrial rock, Down tempo, Post-grunge and Electronica from both the sides of the Atlantic. The biography itself describes the debut from this one-man act referring to influential bands such as Big Black, Fiona Apple, Jesus Lizard, Tears For Fears, NIN, Portishead, Deftones and Pixies; I would add Filter and the likes, but I guess you already got the picture.
Eric's previous project, Kittymonkey, an Electro-Pop foursome, the tour as a bassist in company with 'luv punks' Battershell and the experience as a frontman of Hard rock outfit Decaf brought him to the point of realizing it was high time he unveiled the ideas he had kept in his mental drawers in the last years.
The record is pretty versatile and contains enough personal solutions after using the cited combos as a starting point. Almost all of the arrangements are perfect, the painstaking vocals and lyrics can make you comprehend he worked long on them, so that all tracks could potentially enjoy radio airplays, although my own preferences go to the electric compositions ("Christcontrol", also available as a promo video on you tube, "Prescription Drugs", "Mistletoe" and "Butterfly").
The recording is professional and bombastic, whereas the songs contain quite a lot of catchy and hypnotizing choruses and vocal hooks. Need I say more so as to make your mouths water?
MARKUS GANZHERRLICH - September 20th, 2010
CANCER KILLING GEMINI sends It Only Hurts When We Breathe - Industrial metal with one foot on the gas and the other in the grave. Soaring vocals and barbwire guitars, an insane mix of prescription drugs and end of the world rock. Check 'em out before they spontaneously combust.
