"L'Amour" opens play - a rather dense little piece of music showing how they have advanced in the last twelve months, leaving behind their more youthful quirkiness and instead forging a warm, space-filling sound which wouldn't sound out of place in any Indie or Industrial disco. It has an intimate warmth & closeness while being a fast little mover. And the vocal style has improved - it could almost claim Rap as it's roots, but has a good decade of progress to have lost that scene. "Colyseum" is another large & colourful piece which has a degree of FRONT 242 in it's roots. Again this would go down well on the dance floors of Europe, and the lyrics/vocals are hooky (in more than one sense!). "Around The World" again has a degree of EBM to it while having it's heart in the European hard-edged pop music which hangs around the Industrial scene's warped & twisted doorway. Using vocoded countries as a motif for the myriad synthetics to play over, it creates an interesting & powerful but cold dance atmosphere. There's even elements of DEPECHE MODE & OMD battered into the walls of this dance piece. "White Wedding" has the vocalist sounding like a cross between BOWIE circa "Scary Monsters" crossed with PSYCHEDELIC FURS given a meaty and forceful piece of synth-Rock which batters out of the speaker's with a vengence. Another possible single. "Tell Me Why" has a grand sound scale - that sense of immense size used by people like SIMPLE MINDS and occasionally even U2, although it sounds very different - again the vocalist offers us the strength of voice found on records by PSYCHEDELIC FURS and, even more wonderfully the IMMACULATE FOOLS who I have a soft spot for. "Drum '70' (Strange Emotion)" has another sound - more along the lines of EMF crossed with others in the more exciting side of Rave. It has, as usual, a thick, dense yet never overcrowded sound & genuinely inspired chord changes. It has much more to offer than many of the chart dance tracks, which of course have to be gelded to be played on National Radio. "Ailleurs" has a slower, less complicated but no less 'large' sound which again brings people like SIMPLE MINDS and even JOHN FOXX to mind. It has a huge cathedral sound to it - a song of celebration, of inspiration of sung praise, perhaps of the greatest love. "As A Lover" breaks the mood with it's manic, crazed 'dance-or-be-damned' attitude - a harsh and deliberate piece of Body Music which probably redefines the scene - it relies less on electronics than most, but still kicks up a huge cloud of dust. Again a piece which might just burn a hole in the Indie Dance charts if released as a single. "Trash Hit (The Red Fish)" has the power of SONIC VIOLENCE & the pure logic of a fettered GODFLESH hammered into a much more upbeat dance piece - powerful & bright. "Romy Huldigung" reminds me a little of something by LUXURIA - a much more melodic, harmonic instrumental which uses vocal choir sounds to give it an added sense of drama over an already slightly un-nerving piece of music. "Romy Denken" is the most strange and experimental piece on the entire album, giving any of the more strict-rhythmic groups a run for their money. It opens out, flower-like, into another large piece with the magnitude of SIMPLE MINDS finally convincing me, as if I needed it, that here is a potential MegaGroup. The words are in German, but my inability to speak the language in no way detracts me from enjoying it! A song full of building sounds reaching crescendos. Magnificent. I won't pretend that I thought them a little young & naive sounding on the last CD, thus somehow less sure of their sound. On this one they have come of age. I'm not sure many people into this scene will be impressed by these words, but hopefully you will be when you hear it. I'm addicted & hope they can find the distribution & receive the 'push' they need. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.