Description
Cotes D’Armor (True Rebels) is an album by the American singer and songwriter Kevin Max of dc Talk fame, released on dPulse Recordings in August 2010, issued under license from Blind Thief Publishing. The album was produced by 3kStatic, Adrian Belew, Graham Crabb, Lynn Nichols, and Tedd T.
The one time dc Talk man continues his eclectic musical travels with this latest release. Down the years the veteran has moved from edgy rock to gutsy acoustic to blues gospel revivalism and now, on this latest excursion, takes in electronica! While it’s still clear that he’ll always be a rocker at heart, most of ‘Cotes D’Armour’ offers avant garde explorations of various techno sounds mixed up with a hint of rock thanks to some satisfyingly savage guitar work from Adrian Belew, coming through here and there. Fans of the purer rock side of Max will still find true pleasure in songs like «On Yer Bike!», «Walking Through The Walls» and «Saint Of Lonely Hearts». The song «Future Love Song» (already known from the album ‘Crashing Gates’ where it is presented as a slower rock piece) is here redone as a weighty techno extravaganza, which works amazingly well and actually puts more severity into the message of the song. Other tracks are even further out explorations of electronica. Not for the faint hearted, this is still a bold and experimental work of art from an intelligent musician seemingly determined not to tread safe paths of radio friendly commercialism. [Susanne Molina, Cross Rhythms, October 2010]
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CD tracklist:
01. On Yer Bike! – 4:55
02. 2099 – 0:31
03. Out Of The Wild – 3:34
04. Walking Through Walls (Just To Get To You) – 4:48
05. Even When It Hurts – 4:06
06. Magadhi Prakit (Slow) – 2:13
07. Baby, I’m Your Man – 3:46
08. We Love Dangerous – 5:24
09. Train To Transylvania – 3:52
10. Future Love Song – 4:34
11. Your Beautiful Mind – 4:34
12. Traveler – 4:46
13. Abyssmal (More Than This) – 1:55
14. Saint Of Lonely Hearts – 2:50
15. Death Of CCM (Cybergenic Cyclic Machines) – 5:54
16. Unholy Triad – 3:03
Note: An Expanded Digital Version of the album was released by dPulse in July 2011.
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