Diary Of Dreams - The Plague
OK, let's end up all the laboratory diagnostics and go a step further...”The Plague”, a release that many people treat as a harbinger foreshadowing “Nekrolog 43” and listen to it in order to get the sense of what the new album will be like, consists of four pieces: two versions of “The Plague”, “Allocution” and the new, slower, 'memorial' version of the song known of “Freak Perfume” - “Traumtanzer” enriched by drums? bass? (and as a result - deeper).
Putting it most generally: the single should please both: the professed fans of „old, good, slow Diary of Dreams” - thanks to “Allocution” - and those fond of faster, electro-oriented pace that is provided on the album by two versions of the title track.
Going into details: „The Plague vers. n41” is a bit less dynamic than „n4-4” where hard bit prevails from the beginning, but in turn it features harsher vocals and more rapacious mode.
What prevails at the track is a bit distorted vocal, electronics, „devilish”, aggressive, repetitive “choruses” and extremely catchy arrangements. I personally like the fragment of the refrain „[...]I think I need to run to make myself at home, I need to separate [...]„ most: the guitars at this point are simply brilliant and you won't find me exaggerating when I say the riffs artist apply are most smashing: no bland solutions, no boring tunes: pure, energetic „pumping up”. At n4-4 you will find quite a number of invigorating, ravishing notes, entangled in such away to move, stimulate and enchant you with the dancy pace.
„Allocution” is, like I've already said, a piece revealing a gentler facet of the band: heart-rendering melody runs quite smoothly to get a more dramatic quality while enfolding its story to the listener and to hit twice as hard. The whole soundscape features lyrics as well...
...and lyrics are not optimistic, but I suppose no one had expected them to be that way: unmasking, escape, seclusion, separation, unsuccessful attempts, loosely mentioned fears, the need to fight form texts that scope attention but at the same time aggrive to a large extent. The motive of ambiguity so characteristic for Diary of Dreams is omnipresent throughout the whole single. The world presented by the band is not a good world; it's a terrifying, carnivorous machine that intoxicates with falsity, that hunts and absorbs...the optimists listening to “the Plague”... call for Leibniz and cry ...
What can I say to sum it up? „Hell is other people” that's one thing. Lots of good, diversified music which, however, forcibly shows in which house it was brought to life and what the dreams of its' parents were that's two... you'll judge the rest as your hearts tell you to :)
