Wreckage

1. Slayed - 4.5/5: This song sounds like a mix between the Crystal Method and the Beastie Boys. Not my favorite song on here, but not bad by any means

2. Stompbox - 5/5: This track showcases one of Overseer's specialties: mixing electronic-based music with hard rock. It's a good song to be played while participating in atheletic activities, which is quite fitting, as it was featured in the film "Any Given Sunday."

3. Supermoves - 10/5: My personal favorite of this album and quite possibly one of my favorite electronic songs ever. This song is just so fast-paced and powerful that it must be heard to be believed. If you've ever seen the movie "Snatch" or the trailer to "The Matrix Reloaded," you've heard this incredible track.

4. Velocity Shift - 5/5: This is the shortest song on the album, but it's still very, very good. It reminds me a little of a slightly harder Fatboy Slim. This song was one of two Overseer tracks featured in the game "Stuntman", as well as several various commercials.

5. Horndog - 4/5: And now we have the first single which, if you have seen the Mitsubishi Endeavor commercial, you have no doubt heard. It's a rather good mid-tempo song with an excellent bassline, but it's not really the reason you should by this CD (Supermoves is reason enough).

6. Meteorology - 3.5/5: Now the album takes a little break from all the ferocity of the first few tracks. This song is pretty good, but it's not the best of the low-tempo offerings on this album. It's actually pretty weird on the first listen, but not nearly as strange as Heligoland.

7. Aquaplane - 3/5: This is just about the same as Meteorology, only a tad bit slower and done using a different vocal style. Whereas Meteorology sounds like something Moby would do, Aquaplane sounds, in my opinion, very Gorillaz-ish.

8. Doomsday - 5/5: Back to the fast songs. This is my second favorite track after Supermoves. It combines rock, hip-hop, and electronica to produce a song rather reminescent of something BT might do.

9. Basstrap - 5/5: The other song that was in "Stuntman", which sounds very much like it's partner, Velocity Shift, although it's longer and has more vocals. A very catchy song.

10. Sparks - 4/5: This song sounds a little bit out of place. It's more along the lines of something Sarah McClaughlin would do instead of anything else on the record. That having been said, it's the best of the low-tempo songs and is not bad by any means.

11. Never - 2/5: Okay, this is by far THE worst song on the album. Hip-hop I can take, but this... It borders almost on gangsta rap!! While the ambient background music and female vocals in the chorus sound good, they simply cannot make up for the ghetto-centric lyrics. My least favorite on the CD.

12. Heligoland - 3/5: And we end with perhaps the weirdest song of the record, which consists of Moby-like ambient swirls complimented by what appears to be a weather-forecaster speaking complete and total nonsense, followed by a phone that rings for upwards of twenty minutes, only to hang up when someone finally answers and says "'Ello!" It's weird for sure, but it's not the worst thing I've ever heard.

All in all, this is a very solid release from an artist you've probably all heard before but you just don't know his name. Well, it's Overseer. Rob Overseer. And his CD, Wreckage, deserves to be bought. By YOU.

It starts with slayed, which i garantee will make your heart beat faster. Overseer proceeds with some kind of "call to arms" - makes you focus on the music. Big-beat, hypnotic lyrics, you know that the rest of the cd will NOT make you dissapointed.

Then it shifts to stompbox - fast beats, guitar riffs, perfect drums. Even the lyrics have some sort of Aura to them.

Supermoves. You've heard this one in need for speed underground, the animatrix... It has done its proofs. It is "slower" in my opinion than stompbox, to prepare the listener to what's coming.

Velocity shift is exactly what it is. Again, it feels slower than supermoves, but actually isn't. It "morphs" the beats to prepare for horndog.

Horndog. Greetings to record enthusiasts! Its 90s-rock feel with a present touch of electronica will make you happy. nothing better than this track to start a morning with.

Meteorology + aquaplane: Okay, this is kind of confusing. Overseer puts slow beats in the middle of the cds, which might confuse the listener. The whole cd makes me think of a waging war. Maybe this is the effect other reviewers have dubbed "makes you think of action movies". Violin, japanese girl singing, big beats.

Doomsday is a ectic track. Gives you kind of a shock after aquaplane. Rapper is perfect for me, lyrics have their own flow. The synth on this is awesome.

Basstrap. LET THE BASSLINE GET YOU. The most bassy track of the album, it might annoy some because of its repetiveness. It has some funky-sounding parts in it.

Again with a slow track, sparks. I love the voice of the singer - it matches perfectly with the instruments involved in it.

Shifts to rap/hip-hop: never. A male with a rather low-sounding voices raps. Big beats mixed with a small jazzy-feeling background.

Heligoland is a mystery to most. Yes, it does have 20 minutes or so of a phone ringing, and at the end... well, i'll leave the surprise for you to find :) very creepy. However, it sounds like a track for 3 minutes, and i consider it as a track.