NEUROTICFISH GELB ALBUM STRANGE WAYS RELEASE: FEBRUARY 7, 2005 REVIEW: FEBRUARY 8, 2005

Sascha Mario Klein still has the touch; the ambition to create something majestic; to throw his massive wall of sound into a raging fury, leaving only the echo of beat driven, bombastic electropop buzzing over the corpses of other so called futurepop acts. It is indeed a shame, then, that "Gelb" does not realise its glorious goal. The prequel single , "The Bomb", remains a highlight of last year, but that can not take away the undisputable fact that the album comes across as quite bland.
Neuroticfish have gotten away with using euro techno and trance elements before, simply because of the raw power and the songs themselves, but "Gelb", in all its BPM crazed techno beats, loses focus of what is important. Most, if not all, of the tracks have instant dance appeal, like I said, Klein has the touch, but it seems he has toned down the pop song aspect of those compositions in favour of long, repetitive instrumental excursions.
Nothing on "Gelb" is even close to being bad, but some of it, large portions in fact, seem like waste of talent.

NIKLAS FORSBERG