DIVE
TRUE LIES
ALBUM DAFT RELEASE: OCTOBER 18, 1999 REVIEW: NOVEMBER 15, 1999


Dive is a one man project by Dirk Ivens known from the cult band The Klinik. Dive has released quite a lot of material since the start in the beginning of the nineties.
The music reminds me very much of what The Klinik used to make. Suggestive industrial with distorted vocals, metallic rhythms and a balanced amount of noise. Very far away from the more commercial up tempo industrial dance which is popular nowadays. The trendy danceable techno rhythms are not present.
There are several great tracks on this album, like "Be Yourself" with a refrain full of feeling and the clinical music which is somewhat of a trademark for Dive. "Sidewalk Sinner" is probably the only song which suits a dance floor. It has a moody, repetitive bass line, industrial sounds and all the other typical Dive ingredients.
Finally, I'd like to say that this is a good and pretty unusual album. The quality is high through the entire record. Definitely an album for The Klinik and Suicide Commando fans.

JOHAN ASTEMARK