Sevendials
A Crash Course In Catastrophe
Cadiz Music
You’d expect the collective talents of Chris Connelly, Paul Ferguson and Mark Gemini to be a dead cert musically wouldn’t you? Between them they’ve been in Killing Joke, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, The Mission and many more. Well, you’d be right, but the end result might be a little different to what you might expect. This is you sense a record the trio had as individuals had been wanting to make. It just needed to be the right mix of personnel and the right time. It has an exploratory air about it making it bang up to date. At the same time you get that rich wealth of writing experience coming through too. It does indeed have a retro feel to it, a warm glow of knowledge underpinning each song. The opening cover of Sparks favourite ‘Number One Song In Heaven’ is a good pointer as what to expect on the rest of the album. There’s a mix of industrial and darkwave swirled with gothic synth and 80s new wave. What we have in short are ten alternative nightclub bangers that you can play very loudly during daylight hours too. In a world full of AI and plastic pap this is an organic hand crafted and very human record.
Review by Gary Trueman