TRYLOK
RELIANCE
ALBUM ARTOFFACT RELEASE: MAY 19, 2000 REVIEW: AUGUST 11, 2000

After having spent the past winter isolated in an Austrian mountain village, working killer days in a kitchen and watching the fascist Haider government come to power, I have a slight aversion against Austria. And the trio Trylok, based in Bregenz, not far from where I worked, don't do much to change my views. Trylok sound like one thousand other bands who spent the late 90's occupying a zone between synthpop, EBM light and dull techno. An embarrassing cover of Kraftwerk's beautiful "Radioactivity" and the fact that the members go under the aliases "Mind", "Energy" and "Strategy" just make them hit the ground even harder. Utterly uninteresting.

KRISTOFFER NOHEDEN


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