Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The Kidney Thieves

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I was wondering if I should leave Jeremy to finish this post since he recommended the band and should surely know much better than me. I looked up the Wikipedia entry for Kidney Thieves (let's put a link to Wiki, all-u-can-find source of information!) and these two songs I got from Jeremy are from their 2002 studio album 'Zerospace'. One is called 'Serene Dream' and the other 'Dyskrasia'. You can follow the links and try them out! Here's their official website (lots broken links btw).

Brief Profile
Kidneythieves is an Industrial rock band led by Free Dominguez (vocals) and Bruce Somers (guitar/engineering). Along they way they picked up other band members such as Chris Schleyer (guitar), Christian Dorris (bass), and Sean Sellers (drum). Free Dominguez often puts a lot of influences from psychology, mainly Jung, into her lyrics. The band released two albums, Trickster (1998), Zerøspace (2002). They re-released Trickster as Trickstereprocess in 2004, which includes completely digitally remastered tracks, included is also 5 bonus tracks only available on this version and a bonus DVD. They also released a remix EP called Phi In The Sky (2001) in between Trickster & Zerøspace. They broke up after the release of Trickstereprocess. Free Dominguez went on to create an indie project while Bruce Somers created the band ShockNina.

Album: Zerospace
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Album cover

'Serene Dream', hmm, I'm at a brain block as how to describe it. Free Dominguez's voice reminds me strongly of Wong Faye's (Maybe Jady will write a review on her) but don't be fooled by an ethery floating song like this, Free's total flip of style in 'Dyskrasia' just shows how versatile she is. Look who's speaking. I've only heard two tracks but two is enough to prove her scope of talents. Ah, 'Serene Dream', makes me feel rather cold and it might be the half flat tone merged with cello and lonely random piano keys whispering in the background. I don't know why but my gut feeling tells me ET-sama will dive for this type of songs.

'Dyskrasia', excuse my limited vocabulary but actually I have to look it up in www.dictionary.com to tell you it means abnormal blood condition. If you disect the word, it should come down to the meaning of 'bad mixture'. This song is edgy, fast-beat with urgent acoustic guitar kicking off in the background and Free's voice is just wild and free style lol. Love it!

So here's my mini mini review. BTW, when I saw a small cover image of 'Zerospace', I thought Free looks like Katherine Moenig probably coz of the dark eyeliners, which, well, if you enlarge the image and see for youself... a rather modern ghost story.

ps. anyone heard the first track on the radioblog? Deep Blue Sea. I think it's really nice.

Posted by Z at 2:38 PM

2 comments:

  1. Jade3/22/06, 5:51 PM

    hey interesting band, though the name made me go 'yuks', painful in the kidneys...^^ gonna download the tracks~

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  2. jeremy3/23/06, 5:02 AM

    Actually, that's a pretty good overview Zhu, for the two songs I gave you :-). Most of their songs are more like "Dyskrasia" than "Serene Dream." I'm afraid I'll be pretty pathetic at contributing until I get more time.

    I can send you the rest of the album if you want. I'm getting another version of their first album, but it's taking forever to get it through the mail.

    I thought kidneythieves was a great name ^.^

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