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Recoil, the concept project of former Depeche Mode musical director Alan Wilder, removes itself from the music industry norms and blinkers, supplying a confrontational and emotive symphony. It is a dark visitor and apersistent character. Brooding, provocative, tough and disarming, it has more atmospherics than a chemical spillage in the Channel Tunnel and is just as dramatic....
"Ultimately, everything I do tends to have a dark, menace about it," says Alan Wilder. "It has to have substance and atmosphere, to
be able to send a shiver up my spine. Otherwise I'm just not interested."
Welcome to Recoil, where the dark recesses of Alan Wilder's mind get music's equivalent of cinemascope treatment. During the
nine haunting and sultry tracks that comprise 'Unsound Methods', we are taken to the edge of unease, through dark, dub infected
landscapes, reverberating with shivering piano, seductive strings and a deep electronic pulse.
Guest vocalists Siobhan Lynch, Maggie Estep, Douglas McCarthy and Hildia Cambell conspire with the former Depeche
Mode man to forage through a jungle of imagery invoking fear, paranoia, longing and lust in equal measures. "There's an underlying
strangeness to it all," Wilder agrees. "If there is a theme, it's something to do with psychological damage." Never had a record so
apt a title.
For more infomation on Recoil visit Shunt - The Official Recoil Website.