DOPE STARS INC – Neuromance

„Fucking narcissist, aren’t we?“ can be read with a twinkle in the eye above the heavy dressed-up and stylish promotion photos on the homepage of the Italian newcomer band DOPE STARS INC., whose current album Neuromance is their debut at Trisol. The musical component of the futuristic four is – fitting to the visual impression, which will cause some crushes in the hearts of female fans - in a sound technical nearly perfect arrangement of electro and rock, this is not surprising as for Neuromance no other producers than John Fryer (producer of HIM, Nine Inch Nails) and Thomas Rainer of L’Ame Immortelle have been behind the controls.
Consequently the cyber-cosmos of the DOPE STARS INC. is travelling at high speed; handily the tracklist is even mentioning the BPM figure. In comparison to The Kovenant and Deathstars, DOPE STARS INC. in spite of the high part of electronic components do leave enough space for rock star attitudes to throw in a „Yeah!“ once in a while.
There are no musical black-outs or apparent filler on Neuromance but sometimes the consistent high tempo is a bit tiring and leads to miss some variety, but makes sure that the album is highway and dancefloor-compatible. The few slower and melodically multilayer songs like Make A Star show the whole potential of this band. We want more!
All in all is Neuromance a remarkable debut and it will be interesting to see, the other strings on the bow of their next publications. Fans of the above mentioned bands can buy this album blindly but should try to get the limited edition which comes in a digipack in high format including a remix album of such names as Funker Vogt and Mortiis, adding some other facets to cyberrock and where some musical highlight can be found (Siderartica, Spiritual Front).