Project Pitchfork Album: “Kaskade”

Project Pitchfork continues their legacy as great storytellers. The songs on Kaskade tell tales with familiar themes of love and loneliness, and the toil of the daily grind. Kaskade is filled with multiple layers of the usual aggressive guitars and percussion, and melodic electronics transitioning through genres without notice. The nearly spiritual lyrics are made very palatable delivered by the intricate music.

The first single `The Future Is Now' and `The Present' stand out as obvious dance floor favorites but there is hardly a track on the album that wouldn't get someone moving. Tracks like `Chains' and the opener `Instead of an Angle' feel like perfect tracks to get you through your commute, however you travel. Some of the tracks have a very Rock & Roll feel, `Echoes' follows that formula best.

For those of you familiar with Project Pitchfork the music alone doesn't offer a whole lot more to the listener than the previous two albums. What this album does do a good job of is taking the usual cold sounding electronics and making them a very emotional and organic part the music. Kaskade as an album fits right along with Diamonion and Inferno being a very cerebral ride, as if you were hearing the soundtrack to a life that may or may not be your own. The stories told, and the complex music, make this album worth the listen, especially if you can join Project Pitchfork on the journey.

Some excellent tracks in an album that is a bit monotonous. Abyss is an excellent track, with real emotion and a good hook.. just don't pay too much attention to the lyrics.

After swirling around in melodic approaches on their past two albums Daimonion and Inferno, Project Pitchfork has returned to a sound similar to that of their album Eon:Eon. What is different here though is that it incorporates some of the best dance rythmics from say, Damonion and also the more jumpy tracks off of the smooth singles that came off of Inferno (View From a Throne and Trialog.) This causes the listner to be immersed in a much more aggressive but also mature Project Pitchfork sound, minus the light experimental tones that Inferno had. It is as if the band has come full circle, returning to the sound that they embarked upon with Eon:Eon, but have brought it up to date (as I have said above.) This album overall is just a definite sign that Project Pitchfork is not ready to hang it up.