After two years of work, blood, sweat and some tears, Collide present their new album, Counting to Zero. Counting To Zero features eleven new and original tracks that channel the band’s electro, darkwave, trip hop, and synthpop core, with a subtle dose of exoticness. This--their seventh full-length studio release--is a cohesive unit set on digitizing your brain matter into a cybernetic dreamscape of bass, beats, guitars, and synthetic ear candy supplemented by kaRIN’s ethereal female vocals.
From ambient starters like “Bending and Floating” to the fast-paced “Further From Anything”, Collide populates the album with ecstatic wavelengths that continue from start to finish. On “Lucky 13” for example, the track combines minor key violins usually found within movie soundtracks and superimposes them over a dirty synth and guitar riff to produce a song that would fit in perfectly on a modern James Bond film. The breathtaking track “Human” emotionally rips your heart out, while still leaving you wanting more. “Mind Games” captures the core essence of the band. With an absolutely infectious soundscape seamlessly stitched together with a distorted synth riff that is near unforgettable, Statik has managed to create the ultimate bedrock for kaRIN’s evocative vocals. Once again, Collide enlisted Kevin McVey to direct an alluring surrealistic video to accompany the song. All in all, Counting To Zero is a sonic seduction rarely heard, resulting in an album that is nothing but pure listening pleasure.
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