Review Vital Weekly

Apparently Brian Uzna worked three years on his debut 'Combat Shock', combining his influences from classical music to glitch and everything in between (sounds like 500 years of music history). Originally he had two different album concepts, one experimental and one 'catchy' one. I am not sure why in the end it's one album, combining both, but surely there is a good reason for it. 'Combat Shock' is indeed a pretty varied album, leaning towards various sides of rhythm oriented music, and I must say I rather like the more experimental/ambient side of things, than the sometimes too straight forward techno inspired music of some of the other tracks. It's however a nice mixture of these styles, guaranting the listener not to get bored. Some people make think it's a bit too varied and that Uzna should make up his mind in which style to continue, but I don't think that necessary. It's nice enough as it is.

By Frans de Waard