FIDEL VILLENEUVE
KILL LIFE
ALBUM DIGITAL HARDCORE RELEASE: FEBRUARY, 2001 REVIEW: APRIL 4, 2001

British teen duo Fidel Villeneuve have their minds full of anger and their sampler full of just about everything else. On their Digital Hardcore debut “Kill Life”, they’re dangerously close to become formulated noise-heads, but their youthful energy saves them. Adolescently titled tracks like “Go Fuck Yourself!!!”, “Fully Loaded Overloaded!!!” and “Monkey Time!!!” take in demented break beats, soundtrack fragments, media chatter, and distortion, distortion, distortion. The thin production takes some of the power away, but I’d listen to this before Brighter Death Now any day.

KRISTOFFER NOHEDEN