Guitars! Guitars! Guitars! Just give me the guitars! While Industrial purists will eschew guitar-based industrial, this is the kinda vibe that gets me pumped about music today. On this long-awaited release, Klank has adopted a heavier dance vibe, but those wonderful machine gun-like crunchy guitars are everywhere. The vocal quality is there, too. The song "No Answers / No Reasons" features the line "...nobody gives a damn, what good are words..." which, of course, will turn off a lot of listeners who are trying to make their speech pure before the Lord. The song seems to address the fact that so many believing listeners have questions about Klank's music. This song, and "Bleed Me Dry" (with it's chorus shouts of "suck!") and "Don't Like" seem to be angry responses from the artist to his audience. The title-track asks the loaded question, "Tell me why everyone in the world has to be like you?" A valid question, but it drips with a bitter attitude. There's some good points brought up as well, like "...everything I do, you seem to pick apart / I try to be sincere . . . is it too much to ask just to leave me alone? / Haven't you heard of respect, or do you have to be shown?" If we could all just get along, we could enjoy some killer music here. It's kinda hard though, with all the fighting words going back and forth (between both artist and listener).
Other coverage for this album
The Phantom Tollbooth 2000Reviewed by Michial FarmerKlank's new album, Numb, is a rarity in the music world--it's an album whose B-side is actually superior to its A-side. That's not really all that difficult a task--Numb's first seven songs are completely uninspiring and boring, with a false rage that wears thin very quickly. It's also mixed poorly, with the drums being far too loud and everything else sounding as if it was recorded through a…The Phantom Tollbooth 1999Reviewed by Joe RockstrohEveryone's favorite industrial metalman is back. After months of delays, Klank's second album is now available. Produced, recorded, and released independently, this album is definitive. Whereas Klank's debut on Tooth & Nail was more of a metal album with some industrial influences sans Klay Scott, Numb is the whole animal: heavy guitar grooves, pulsating electronics, danceable beats and loads of…
