Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors
By: Mauro Roma

Link: http://ondarock.it/recensioni/2009_screenvinylimage.htm


Following a handful of individual self-produced CDs, here's the debut of the long player by Screen Vinyl Image, a duo in Washington DC that's "Interceptors" is steeped in two of the trends that characterize most of the modern indie scene. On the one hand, the increasingly inflated rediscovery of synthetic 80's years, the other a taste for bold and creative sound contamination.

A particularly gloomy and paranoid theme seems to characterize the writing of the band, which escapes the risk of falling into the trite and glossy manner of vintage sounds. The sound gives it a healthy disk halo of dirt and disorder, while the band stands out in creating a sound both unbridled and voracious that cannibalize Moroder and M83, Curve, the Sisters Of Mercy, the first school of EBM, and anything yet.

Powerful analogs plowed by scaffolding items evanescent, dense shoegaze reminders and irresistible rhythms, in a triumph of visionary sci-fi atmosphere, aggression and white al calor frequencies disturbed. Do not deceive the placid intro "Synthetic Apparition", already on a declaration of intent. To mark the path beaten by the duo is pretty devastating in "Cathode Ray" launching a charging step, cold and ruthless as an army of androids, friction from the most abhorrent Soundboard assaults.

From here onwards is a succession of songs, supersonic - which enchant for their breath epic and ethereal - like "Fever" and "What You Need" and years of high school Synthetica such as "Until The End Of Time" or " Asteroid Exile ". The work is solid and compact, and the duo is skilled in determining the ingredients, such as the interstellar travel of "Slipping Away" or "Death Defiance", overtaken by martellanti syncopated industrial nails and rough guitar noise.

Only in the end the band seems to betray some sign of slowing, slightly losing control of the propensity to a stratified and creative chaos that is the true figure of style, and that makes this album, this collection of dances involving synthetic, one of expressions paradoxically more fresh and a vital stage in the revival of neo-eighties.

"Interceptors" is the business card of a band with great potential.