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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: PRO98-2
- Format: CD
- UPC: 617026009827
- Street Date: 05/31/00
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: Projekt »
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Run Time: 53 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2000
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NA,GB,ASIA
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Aurelio Voltaire - Almost Human
Spontaneously full of mirth and dark humor, Almost Human blurs the gap between the 18th and 21st centuries.
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Sanctuary: "The dark angel is back!!" On his year-2000 second album, Lexicon"Voltaire takes a positively Goth subject matter approach, but the music and feel of the songs are decidedly cabaret / goth cabaret."
On his debut release, Voltaire satirized the concept of Evil and the many ways it manifests itself in the world. Two years later, Voltaire returns with a more lighthearted look at life from the perspective of God's angelic cast-off, Lucifer, driven by pride to attempt the first failed coup in history.
Singing in a deep, velvety croon with all the passion, sorrow and bitterness of a fallen angel, Voltaire has crafted an album full of haunting Old World melodies and memorable pop tunes that you won't be able to get out of your head without a guillotine. Always the devilish wordsmith, Voltaire's songs dance between the sardonic, the heartfelt and the absurd. Whether he is singing about a lost love or a public beheading, Voltaire effervesces in a playfully boisterous mix of wit and old-fashioned merriment.
Spontaneously full of mirth and dark humor, Almost Human blurs the gap between the 18th and 21st centuries. This is pop music for a parallel universe, where Morrissey is the Queen of England and electricity was never discovered. Cleverly combining classical instruments with present-day song structures, Voltaire's New Wave band from the Victorian Era cavort through a cabaret suitable for the most contemporary of dance floors.
Meltdown "Almost Human is clearly the work of a clever but twisted mind stuck somewhere between pop genius and 18th Century lunatic minstrel."
Dark Entries "Sort of like Morrissey, given a string quartet & cross bred with a bitter gothy version of Weird Al Yankovich, right down to the polka."
CD in 4-panel digipak with 8-page lyric booklet.
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