This first album by Normotone, the new project of a French musician who was part of various EBM acts a decade ago, is something quite strange at first. A mixture of heavy industrial atmospheres, solemn spoken words, poppier female vocals and the occasional big noisy beat, it is something which one can not pigeonhole. It's dark and extrovert, but also subtle and changing, and reminds me a little bit of what Gjöll might sound like if they were a lot less aggressive. A curious but interesting construction.