Review: Asure “Wallbreaker” CD

As the lacking visual presentation suggested in this case, here we have a very weak CD of completely derivative and basic electronic music from this Slovenian project with no real thought, no real intrigue, and no real quality in my opinion. What you'll get are 13 tracks and 40 minutes of simple, generic "breakcore" beats, a little bit of harsh noise/electronic textures, a lot of random samples and distorted noise, and that's about it. It all sounds pretty much the same, it's all got the same relatively thin and one-dimensional sound, there's no real structure or consideration as to how the samples and beats are arranged, the songs don't flow well... it's just a jarring, annoying, boring listen. I try to be polite, I really do... but there's no reason why this disc should ever have seen the light of day. I mean, this is so formulaic and so forced that every song runs exactly three minutes even, with a mere one track in the dead center of the disc running precisely four minutes. The songs start and end abruptly, they proceed to run through chaotic arrangements and stuttered rhythms or loops... it's just bland. There's no other word for it. Every now and then there are some moments that are pretty cool, but they're all too brief and few and far between. Maybe if you're stoned out of your mind and like to dance very irregularly and without consistent rhythm this is the kind of thing you'd enjoy, I don't know, but I'm honestly struggling to find any redeeming qualities here. And to make things worse the layout on this thing is horrible. One of the worst I've ever laid eyes on. And unprofessional as well. I hate to be so blunt, but man... this thing looks like shit. The CD-R is blank and has the band name and album title handwritten on it (tacky), the entire layout was printed from a home computer and you can see all of the little printer dots (tacky), the fonts are pixilated and can be hard on the eyes (tacky), and the visuals are just bland and goofy (tacky). I mean, the front cover is nothing but random crap that was probably either generated in Photoshop or created by manipulating an image over and over again, and the back cover is some stupid anime drawing of a bunch of girls with no pants on laying on beds facing the walls so their asses are showing. No thanks. Pass on this one. I don't know... if you're a super digital hardcore fanatic and anything with a distorted beat and a sample about fucking will get your attention, maybe you'd dig this. Not me. Sorry.

[D-Trash]
Running time - 40:00, Tracks: 13
[Notable tracks: I couldn't care less, honestly...]
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