Jane Magazine: “Intensely passionate lyrics delivered in low whispers and startling, penetrating screaming.â€
The Village Voice: “Shikhee drapes her angst in velvet. She and the genres she draws from do a kind of tango of desire and venom. At times she sounds like Tori Amos at her most feral; at others like Alanis Morrisette feasting on anger. But mostly Shikhee sounds uniquely abandoned.â€
Android Lust returns with Devour, Rise, and Take Flight, an aggressive and in-your-face counterpoint to 2003's introspective epic, The Dividing. Born in Bangladesh, Android Lust auteur Shikhee has been exploring the cutting edge of desire, rage, and panic in her songs since her first independent release in 1998. Borrowing elements from diverse musical styles, Android Lust presents a blend of electronic rock that is provocative, engaging, and fiercely emotional. Devour, Rise, and Take Flight is an unforgiving electronic rock assault carried across twelve powerful tracks. Shikhee's commanding voice takes center stage, set against her most challenging, yet accessible songwriting to date. And in true Android Lust fashion, she saves her best hooks for her most vicious sentiments, all while taking modern electronic music even further to the edge.
Shikhee has been making quite the name for herself in the indie electronic music community. Her music evolves with each release, showing a greater musical range than the plethora of unoriginal and copycat bands in the scene. Shikhee redefines herself with Devour, Rise, and Take Flight, with complex rhythms supporting multi-layered vocal melodies, and textural sounding electronica that somehow conjures minimalism with a surprisingly layered and lush sound. A glutted genre receives much deserved nobility.
A review from musictap.net:
Not only has Reznor of NIN lost his teeth, but it is Shikhee of Android Lust that has pulled them out of Reznor’s head with the release of her very potent, highly nihilistic Devour, Rise, and Take Flight. With Reznor’s crown as the bloodied prince of angst in jeopardy, Android Lust is all too willing to invade and conquer.
Android Lust is Shikhee, a persona draped in anger and loathing, who, as NIN did in the distant past, uses the things that disrupt and confuse as a palette of musical exasperation. On her new album, Shikhee goes right to the throat with a collection of 12 songs, each more harrowing, more broken than the previous. With intense heat emanating from the first track, “Lover Thine,†it’s hard to believe that it can get any darker…but it does. “Lover Thine†begins with an industrial barrage that mixes a hardcore element with murderous imagery segueing into a musically darker “Hole Solution,†a song that spews hatred like a fluid fouled, spilling from a spigot. The softer but no less poisonous, “Wicked Days†is excellent, followed by the suicidal assault of “The Body,†a definite declaration of who owns whose flesh, building into a miasma of resolve. Even the president cannot escape this heated anger with a directed furnace blast of sardonic barbs found in “Fell the Empty Mask.â€
You owe it to yourself to bask in this bath of intoxicating rage. Every song is a treatise of pain and anguish, a mixture of introspective disbelief and unanswered fury blended in a fabric of frightening electronic sounds with no borders, explorative textures, and dizzying rhythms. Android Lust is the new voice of desperation. Shikee, the voice and heart of Android Lust, is the new fear and loathing.
Move over, Reznor, your successor hath come.
Check out the artist's website:
http://projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PRO00179Track List:
1. Lover Thine
2. Hole Solution
3. Dragonfly
4. Wicked Days
5. The Body
6. Leah
7. Sense of it All
8. Fell The Empty Mask
9. Memory Game
10. Thomael
11. Linguae
12. Unrecognize
Suggested CDs:
Other Genres:
