Release Date: 16 May, 2000
Audio CD
Tracks
- Firstlight
- Kingdom
- Rubicon
- Saviour
- Fragments
- Distant [Rubicon II]
- Standing
- Legion
- Dark Angel
- Arclight
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Rating 4.5
I consider this to be one of VNV Nation's best!I stumbled into VNV Nation when I was 14-15 years old (don't quite remember, but that is irrelavent!) and this was the CD that made me fall madly in love with the duo. I have found that the selections on this C.D. are some of their best. I still prefer this C.D. to many of their other C.D.'s which are just as brilliant. These exemplify, to me, the cycles of a city or empire, these are songs that touch you deep down, you can relate to, and some just make you want to dance!!! (Isn't that what a good C.D. is suppose to do?) This isn't some horrid wanna-be-techno that has a horrible song with a beat. This is music at its epitome. Empires will touch you where a C.D., or any other form of expression, has never reached before. The lyrics can be heartwrenching and enlightening at the same time. Dance 'til your hearts content and have fun to the epitome of music creators ever!
VNV Nation produces the highest quality music you can find. The songs are wonderful on all their C.D.'s. Check them out, give them a try......trust me, you'll never let them go, nor the things they teach you about yourself. Be proud, sing loud, and dance like never before!
-~~~~~~~~~~*Enjoy*~~~~~~~~~~-Repetitive, untalented and sloppy.VNV Nation is a terrible example of the music i love. Their compostition is weak, repetitive and slow. The pentamiter of the lyrics does not match with rythym or bass. The vocals are slow sloppy and untalented. Listening to this vocalist is like listening to the jaw bone of a donkey being scraped along a chalk board in a wide hallway.THE Definitive FuturePop AlbumWhile we all know that futurepop refers to the excellent synth music generated by VNV, Apoptygma Berzerk, Covenant, Assemblage 23 and many legions of followers circa 1998 through present, it should be noted that this album marks the moment the term became meaningful; This was FuturePop. It's stark, grand, beautiful, sweeping, dark, soul-searching and megalomaniacal all set to a pounding, pulsating beat. In other words, it's everything the post-industrial, neo-Gothic soul ever wanted and then some.
While 'Praise the Fallen' was brilliant, 'Empires' took the sound to a new level and crystallized for all where the scene was going to go. It's almost pointless to go into specific detail on the songs as they are all amazing and equally essential to the development of the complete work. If you must pick singles or tracks to play in the DJ booth, then you'd probably focus on these: "Kingdom", "Rubicon", "Standing", "Legion" and "Darkangel" (not written as 2 words the way Amazon shows it). All are masterful - strong enough to make you dance, smart enough to make you think and deep enough to make you feel. If you're lucky enough to own the import-only, ultra-rare, double-CD of the "Standing" single (aka 'Burning Empires'), then you'll get the vocal version of "Saviour", astounding remixes of the hits from this album, and the mind-blowing bonus tracks "Anachron" and "Further".
In summary, this is the definitive and probably still the best FuturePop album; Anyone who loves electronic music will explode with joy upon hearing this. Anyone who loves Goth or Electronic Industrial should already have this... if you don't you've danced to it 1,000 times in clubs anyway but you still need it. |
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