Electron "Tides of Darkness"

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Review by Matek

I’m not going to write much about this Finnish outfit, as much is written about them on our site. However if you would like to know more please visit www.spacesynth.net/Artist/Electron

First Impression: Well its different. The cover suggests a small revolutionary approach to the theme, as instead of presenting the cosmos in the background (as we’re used to with other spacesynth artists) we have here a motif of a knight with a sword confronting a dragon taken from a fantasy theme. Some may associate this graphical motif with heavy metal music Smile. As well some of the titles suggest a different look at this music. But they’re just small things, as the rest of the album here is a return to tradition. Such small things are inconsequential. You might say: it’s not about the titles but rather the music.

I’m urged to mention that as previously I’ve written with the names of the tracks, the music is varied but unfortunatelly not very diverse. I won’t write about all the tracks but rather express my feelings to the album as a whole.

After listening to the whole album many times, what came to my attention is that the album molds without variety amongst tracks. Even though the album has different rhythm/ background and tempo, from a musical point of view it’s poor.

There are no prominent solos, no original arrangements, everything is just proper and you can't say a bad word about it, but still it's just decent. What’s interesting is, that the best tracks on the album are those with names that tie to the fantasy world i.e. Fight to Death, Tides of Darkness, Sleeping Lair, The Call of Wilderness, The Victory (with great guitar motives).

The rest of the tracks are average apart from maybe the known Lights of Stalingrad, also a clip on youtube (here also the title itself does not associate to space).

After listening several times, the album starts to become boring.

On the other hand, I don’t want you to think that this is a bad album. Absolutely not! Apart from the points made above, it’s still worthwhile to check out the album yourself.

In summary: Interesting assocations to fantasy motives, however a lack of variety from a musical and arrangement point of view.

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