The Birthday Massacre - Nothing And Nowhere.

Everybody should own this cd. I don't give a damn if you're not a fan of them, or gothic style electronica/industrial, you should own it anyway.

For starters, there is nothing bad about this cd. Nothing bad whatsoever.
Happy Birthday is the lucky song chosen to open the cd, and the fact that Chibi whispers in the song is enough to lure me into liking them. It worked too. Fucking damn whispering!
For those of you who haven't cottoned on just yet, the first song on a cd often determines whether I should listen to the entire cd or not. If it's a mediocre opener, I will reluctantly listen to the rest. But I still do, because the rest could be kickass and I'd miss out.

You could probably say that all The Birthday Massacre seem to write about is relationships, whether it's meant in a romantic sense or something else, but even if it is does it really matter? Promise Me may well be an example of such, but it's fucking brilliant. The imagery is truly pretty. If you think you have the topic pegged then congratulations to you, it still has fantastic accompanying imagery. Good synths in this song too. Fuck.

There was a time when my favourite song on this cd was Video Kid, because of the video game style intro, which seriously is too cute, and if you listen to it you can understand why. I've always loved the lyrics in this song.

Despite all of that, Over is arguably the best song on the cd. It is virtually impossible to dislike that song. Don't use 'but I don't like that genre' as an argument because you don't count. I couldn't give a shit if you hated that song, because I'm not actually addressing you, even if you would like to believe that I am.
Then there's the deliciously industrial Broken, which is probably the heaviest song on the cd, as heavy as The Birthday Massacre could possibly get. Yeah. You guessed right; it's freakin' great! It switches from Chibi's angelic vocals to rough guitars and synths and classic industrial style whisperlike vocals and back again. It kicks. Mmhmm.

Basically, the point of this entry is to tell you all to go invest in a copy of Nothing And Nowhere if you haven't already.

4/5