ANDROID DOMINA

I must admit that I bought this album on basis of very low motives: I wanted to check out what kind of progressive rock music would be done by a female band, which members voluntarily lower themselves as objects of male fetish fantasy for the vinyl album sleeves. I was slightly disappointed, as all of the songs here consist from fast synthesizer runs done upon hasty drum rhythms, which keeps constantly changing in very difficult sounding manners. So these ladies are surely technically very talented musicians, but the compositions didn't give very strong sensation of pleasure for me. However, I'm certain if observed from some other perspective of taste preferences, the observations might be very different. For example I adore Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas and choral works for their celestial harmony romanticisms, but find difficult to enjoy his faster solo harpsichord compositions - works which certainly could be compared to the hectic technical style of this record. If you like this kind of technical brilliance practiced on keyboards, give this album a spin.

As an anecdote, I managed to see this band later live in Finland, as they performed at Tavastia club. Sadly committing the most unrecommendable choice of getting drunk that evening lowered my abilities to observe the performance with clarity, but I recall they had powerful visual style with fantasy cosplay styled outfits, and double keyboard drive with drums created a working flow of melodic complexity. From the female fronted Japanese groups I personally prefer more vintage psych-Oriented Angel'In Heavy Syrup, and leave the other albums of this potentially fine group for other listeners with more better oriented ears of technical symphonic prog rock.