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Versailles
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Believe [EP]
Evil Eye Records
Release: 3/01/2005
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Rated:
Review by:
Jason Warner
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I've had this album in my possession for a damn long time, and
I haven't written a review for it. Why? Because it's hard to
write a review about something you can't even stand to listen
to. It's not so much the style of the music that isn't my bag,
although I normally would not listen to this type of music...it's
the production quality, the songwriting, the performances, and
just pretty much everything about it.
The singer, who calls herself Versailles, sings in an overly airy
soprano voice over backing music that comes across sounding
like drunk karaoke, only it's not fun because we're not drunk
too. This is the best way I can describe how bad this sounds.
The backing music sounds like it has a blanket over it, the
piano parts are so rudimentary and repetitive I wonder if they
might be loops from a Casio keyboard on the demo setting.
The drums sound like an electronic drum-set, like Yamaha
v-drums or something similar that you plug headphones into at
the local Guitar Center. The rest of the music doesn't really
sound that fundamentally bad. It pretty much sounds like
some theatrical adult contemporary elevator music or music for
a really low budget movie. The vocals are what absolutely kill
anything the music has going for it. She sounds like a sick cat
in her almost atonal soprano. It's hard to even hear any words
between all the high-pitched moaning/whining.
I don't know what is worse, the fact this music exists or the fact
these guys got it released by a record label. This is seriously
the worst record I have ever heard in my life. The only good
thing about this disc is that it is only four tracks long, and that
is about 20 minutes too long. Track four is a dance remix of
track one, "Believe," and in this form it is halfway listenable,
but only halfway, and not enough for me to give it a second
chance.
The record sounds like it was recorded in one sitting using a
home computer and Microsoft sound recorder with the
computer's built in microphone. It's hard for me to believe
there could possibly be fans of this band out there, but stranger
things have happened. Please, Versailles, give up now. |
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