‘Shadow In The Dark’ is a bonus video (also track 3 of the album) on ‘Best Kept Secret’ in which a man buries, destroys, burns and throws away numerous compact discs of Plan E. Is this an advise?
Plan E is a Finnish group playing avant-garde dark music. I didn’t realise that there was room for an avant-garde band in a country with its own typical scene of metal. So Plan E should, in the tradition of avant-garde music, bring new, experimental songs, aligning sounds for the future; all this into the dark style of the Scandinavian group. But I don’t find the quartet convincing.
The music, performed without guitars (just 3 bass guitars, drums and vocals) is very minimalistic, simple and brings often a chilling mood on the background. That’s a trump card! All this is emphasized by a monotonous voice. But the songs are sometimes too plain and the singing is boring.
The instruments seem like recording the compilation music of computer games like Age of Empires in some songs; for example song 1 ‘Fool’, song 2 ‘Pure As Snow’ or ‘Lonely Hell’, track number 8.
However, the tracks on this album do can be catchy. The sentence ‘…emptiness of an empty chair’ from track 6 ‘The Blue House’ will always come into my mind when I hear the band’s name. The last/10th song on ‘Best Kept Secret’ is ‘Rockstar/We’; a cover of the song from Brad, performed by Plan E: not bad!
This album is music to be heard on the background. There are a lot of influences from Joy Division, but this Finnish filling in stays dark. Too dark for me.
http://www.plan-e-tarium.com
Comments
There are no comments yet
AUTHOR: Hamirubi
Hamirubi is becoming a Corazine-senior. He has, besides his obsessive dedication to the French néo metal scene, a very healthy interest for low profile underground music to the most commercial songs. You can also find him reading Benelux literature, riding his bike, drawing/collecting comic books and writing local history in his spare time.