N.EVER.ENDLESS
MOMENTS
ALBUM SYNTHPHONY RELEASE: MAY, 2000 REVIEW: AUGUST 29, 2000

I'd like to know where it is. The German synthpop band factory. And I'd very much like to talk to the man in charge of it. My guess is he needs to be replaced, based on his constant granting of acts like N.ever.Endless. Someone with fresh ideas needs to be consulted, someone not only promoting Depeche Mode as role models.
"Moments" is the labour of a German trio suffering from a very common synthpop sickness. They sound like a hundred other bands in the synthpop field. You seldom hear real catastrophes nowadays, but masterpieces are just as rare. The voice of N.ever.Endless tries to impersonate Dave Gahan. No news there. Most songs on "Moments" are quite good though, with focus on melancholic moods and appealing synth sounds, but they never make you go "wow!".
N.ever.Endless need to ask themselves if they really want their music to sound like countless other synthpop bands, preferably German ones.

NIKLAS FORSBERG


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