Miss Kitten & The Hacker – Two | Album Review

Friday, May 1st, 2009 | Album Review

miss-kitten-hackerMiss Kitten is another artist who I find chalk and cheese. On one hand she’s come out with some great electronic tracks yet on the other she’s come out with some cheese melody laden tracks where she insists she must sing over. Her latest offering with The Hacker is no different.

On this album the duo aim for a futuristic space aged sound dipping into the cyber-pop and techno territories. Ironically the sounds they use have an old school feel to them with Moroder synths, 80s synth pop melodies and electrobreak beats. Headline track 1000 Dreams has a great synth pop hook to it and Miss Kittens vocals balance the track out with the soaring futuristic strings. It’s slightly corny, but it’s catchy so I’ll give her that.

Then you have Pppo, a mechanical chugging electroclash track. It has some great muted beats with spacey sonar bleeps and mechanical valve noises. Add to that some nicely placed vocals from Miss Kitten and you’ve got yourself a good stripped back bleepy number.

The rest of the album dices between various styles of electronica layered with differing amounts of Kitten’s vocals. Some work some don’t. Party in My Head has a reminiscent disco Blondie/Moroder feel about it with Miss Kittens layered in just right. But then you have Electronic City which is a perfectly good track on its own yet there are vocals put in there for the hell of it which don’t add anything in sound or meaning. Probably the most annoying track is Suspicious Minds, a fully camp synth pop number with ecstatic string melodies and feel good synth squelches circa rubbish German pop music 1986. Its just embaressing Euro pop that shouldn’t even exist.

This album hits all the marks between love and hate, and could have been far better if Miss Kitten didn’t insist on singing over everything because sometimes she just doesn’t add anything. That said of the good tracks her vocals help make them. The jury is still out on the German songstress.

Buy Miss Kitten & The Hacker – Two on CD

Tracklist:
01 The Womb . 5:43
02 1000 Dreams . 5:23
03 PPPO . 6:27
04 Party in my Head . 6:36
05 Indulgence . 4:06
06 Emotional Interlude . 5:31
07 Suspicious Minds . 5:57
08 Electronic City . 4:43
09 Inutile Éternité . 5:25
10 Ray Ban . 4:34
11 1000 Dreams (Reprise) . 3:02

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