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| Harshness that turns into evil when on "Humans Being" Joseph calls for "kill George Bush". This rather ignorant remark (despite the many reason of why George Bush indeed is quite evil himself), lacks the usually
smart looking behind the things that Joseph usually does. Especially in a song like this, where he discusses the reality George Bush never had to face with a natch for pointing fingers. Like that "for each Bill Gates there's 20 million like me". George would have never met the twenty million,
but many Bills, therefore he also only works for that portion of the people. The smoother beat done by Joseph himself shows a certain frustration, that's very fitting the song's theme. |
| But on the production side of this record, Joseph does not always please. He's following the same wrong path that a Grouch also took under his feet: keyboardy instrumentation. For example listen to "The Truth", a certainly
appropriate track if you just look at the elements. The what is good, the how it sounds is just too canned. The canned carrots look good, but they just don't taste like fresh ones. Very hard to swallow is the continuously repeated pseudo horn on "What's Really", while we can get a couple
of smiles out of the disco funk of Alex75's beat on "Sink Or Swim". |
| Better are the moments where the beats are done with samples ("My Folks And You") or without any recreating-real-instruments sounds. Case in point the loud "Fradulent"
and the more mystic "Ball Point Blank Range", where Joseph discusses the power his words can, may, should, will have. Without these lyrics really intending to stir something up. What makes Joseph come across more like your brother that came back from a sabbatical, sitting down with you,
and sharing the many deep findings he had come across. That's what "The Walk" does. It's reporting on the walk, while walking. In many ways in the right direction the journey went and goes. But there are a couple of swamps putting hindrances in the way of the here and there. |
| review: tadah |
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