Stereotactic CD, get it in time for Christmas - By N.L. Belardes
Stereotactic’s CD The Dawning is an emotional-driven blend of hard rock stylings driven by guitar work that is as precise as a Duke university surgery to remove your soul. It will find its way into overpowering your DNA. Just spin it a few times and watch it work.
Image from Hurricane Relief Show at the Dome...
The packaging I don’t like. There is religious imagery that hints at the dawn of understanding through sacrifice. But it could have been made better, presented better. Inside the package some of the black text is on a black background making lyrics difficult to read...
A soul surgeon? Is that what Stereotactic is? Sure, Kyle reminds me a bit of the old lead singer of Loverboy gone mad and prophetic: long hair, screaming, even more passionate, but without the 80s gimmicks. But then, I was a big fan of Loverboy back in the big 80s. Some of the guitar work on “Dead Men’ reminds me of old Iron Maiden tunes that I used to listen to. Interesting how such precision work can get lumped into emo music. But then, I’m guilty of genre-making, just ask Heath Dobbler.
“Sunday Morning Story” is an incredible song that changes pace like a hurricane and ensuing eye of calm and foreboding. This song has the ability to take you up into the whirl of guitar winds and then trail off into a debris-filled raging storm of sound. Holy shit, Kyle, sing it to me, man.
“Pt. 2 (His Perspective)” takes the momentum from “Sunday Morning Story” and rages onward. The musical interludes, bridges and chorus are just as catchy, but with more of a groove by mid-song… and then in comes the guitar work, recorded at a high-overpowering level that fits the style. I can’t help but bob along to the guitar rhythms as I type, read, or stare off into space and listen…
“Hold the tears back, make them fall inside for a rainy day…I feel so sorry for myself… we stumble and we fall…” goes some of the lyrics from “Selfishness”. This isn’t really a depressing song at all. “I’m so sorry that I wasn’t there… I thought I was…” goes this song that judges the roots of being jaded. I dug the heart of this tune… a misleading title, but true.
“You wanted me to stay the night. You wanted me… I’m back from the dead… I’m finally free again” sings Kyle on “19yr/F” a song about falling out of love. The Dawning is an album about realizations, epiphanies, and the vision we all have when finally understanding. I don’t know if Stereotactic are Buddhists, but this is definitely a disk of enlightenment, of the four noble truths told in gritty rock and roll fashion in terms we can all understand without getting tangled in the throes of religious mediocrity.
“Envy Within” is an upbeat piece about support for those who are suffering. “We will follow you there too,” is a great line that makes me spin this CD and feel like, hey, Kyle and the rest of Stereotactic didn’t go and record a CD full of anger, but one filled with optimism and understanding. I dig this song. I’m going to listen to it when I need drive, motivation, and help dealing with personal issues. The piano-driven ending is tear-jerking. I love it.
Natural order in chaos is what “The Fall of Max Cohen” is about. This song shows, like “Dead Men”, Kyle’s strong interest in historical detail as Max Cohen realized trends speaking to him through supercomputers driving stock market numbers. He suffers from migraines and his genius is poured over as insanity to many… This song has a guitar solo in a few bridges that moves so fast that I can only sit in awe of lead man, Mike...
Stereotactic gets acoustic with “Lost and Found”. They throw in some keyboards and I had to move to the next song because this one was a warning that I probably won’t listen to in my own stupidity… Oh yeah, this song does get hard-rocking; but it takes a while to get there.
“Put it in Ink” carries the ‘dawning theme’ through the story of rock musicians realizing their goals while on and off the stage… everyone wants to give up and go play, but we find a way to hang in there. Or do we? When the song comes up, the player read, “Put it in Pink.” I thought it was going to be a song about Kenny Mount cross-dressing. I went back to the CD sleeve and read the real title and story, Ink, not pink.
“Fleetwood” is a song I don’t quite understand because it’s the story of a love lost that I would have to sit with Kyle and pick his brain to truly understand. What I do dig, is through Stereotactic’s emo-urban hard rock they give stories with a moral, mini-parables to help us live out life. Is “Fleetwood” really just about living with choices and running into a jilted condescending woman who somehow imprinted Kyle’s soul with her own?
Stereotactic ends their CD sermon on the mount, albeit, a positive sermon of uplifting qualities telling us that we can move forward by understanding our lives, not denying them, not denying that which we suffer, not denying heartache, not denying the pursuit of goals, and to give up on worthless loves who drag us down.
I dig the organ ending. It’s as ominous as the CD cover hoped to be. There is a singing on it that pierces the soul; and you don’t always find that in a hard-rocking album filled with emotional bursts of music and moral energy…
Image from Hurricane Relief Show at the Dome...
The packaging I don’t like. There is religious imagery that hints at the dawn of understanding through sacrifice. But it could have been made better, presented better. Inside the package some of the black text is on a black background making lyrics difficult to read...
A soul surgeon? Is that what Stereotactic is? Sure, Kyle reminds me a bit of the old lead singer of Loverboy gone mad and prophetic: long hair, screaming, even more passionate, but without the 80s gimmicks. But then, I was a big fan of Loverboy back in the big 80s. Some of the guitar work on “Dead Men’ reminds me of old Iron Maiden tunes that I used to listen to. Interesting how such precision work can get lumped into emo music. But then, I’m guilty of genre-making, just ask Heath Dobbler.
“Sunday Morning Story” is an incredible song that changes pace like a hurricane and ensuing eye of calm and foreboding. This song has the ability to take you up into the whirl of guitar winds and then trail off into a debris-filled raging storm of sound. Holy shit, Kyle, sing it to me, man.
“Pt. 2 (His Perspective)” takes the momentum from “Sunday Morning Story” and rages onward. The musical interludes, bridges and chorus are just as catchy, but with more of a groove by mid-song… and then in comes the guitar work, recorded at a high-overpowering level that fits the style. I can’t help but bob along to the guitar rhythms as I type, read, or stare off into space and listen…
“Hold the tears back, make them fall inside for a rainy day…I feel so sorry for myself… we stumble and we fall…” goes some of the lyrics from “Selfishness”. This isn’t really a depressing song at all. “I’m so sorry that I wasn’t there… I thought I was…” goes this song that judges the roots of being jaded. I dug the heart of this tune… a misleading title, but true.
“You wanted me to stay the night. You wanted me… I’m back from the dead… I’m finally free again” sings Kyle on “19yr/F” a song about falling out of love. The Dawning is an album about realizations, epiphanies, and the vision we all have when finally understanding. I don’t know if Stereotactic are Buddhists, but this is definitely a disk of enlightenment, of the four noble truths told in gritty rock and roll fashion in terms we can all understand without getting tangled in the throes of religious mediocrity.
“Envy Within” is an upbeat piece about support for those who are suffering. “We will follow you there too,” is a great line that makes me spin this CD and feel like, hey, Kyle and the rest of Stereotactic didn’t go and record a CD full of anger, but one filled with optimism and understanding. I dig this song. I’m going to listen to it when I need drive, motivation, and help dealing with personal issues. The piano-driven ending is tear-jerking. I love it.
Natural order in chaos is what “The Fall of Max Cohen” is about. This song shows, like “Dead Men”, Kyle’s strong interest in historical detail as Max Cohen realized trends speaking to him through supercomputers driving stock market numbers. He suffers from migraines and his genius is poured over as insanity to many… This song has a guitar solo in a few bridges that moves so fast that I can only sit in awe of lead man, Mike...
Stereotactic gets acoustic with “Lost and Found”. They throw in some keyboards and I had to move to the next song because this one was a warning that I probably won’t listen to in my own stupidity… Oh yeah, this song does get hard-rocking; but it takes a while to get there.
“Put it in Ink” carries the ‘dawning theme’ through the story of rock musicians realizing their goals while on and off the stage… everyone wants to give up and go play, but we find a way to hang in there. Or do we? When the song comes up, the player read, “Put it in Pink.” I thought it was going to be a song about Kenny Mount cross-dressing. I went back to the CD sleeve and read the real title and story, Ink, not pink.
“Fleetwood” is a song I don’t quite understand because it’s the story of a love lost that I would have to sit with Kyle and pick his brain to truly understand. What I do dig, is through Stereotactic’s emo-urban hard rock they give stories with a moral, mini-parables to help us live out life. Is “Fleetwood” really just about living with choices and running into a jilted condescending woman who somehow imprinted Kyle’s soul with her own?
Stereotactic ends their CD sermon on the mount, albeit, a positive sermon of uplifting qualities telling us that we can move forward by understanding our lives, not denying them, not denying that which we suffer, not denying heartache, not denying the pursuit of goals, and to give up on worthless loves who drag us down.
I dig the organ ending. It’s as ominous as the CD cover hoped to be. There is a singing on it that pierces the soul; and you don’t always find that in a hard-rocking album filled with emotional bursts of music and moral energy…
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