Something Completely Different Book of Love Play: Lo-Fi   Mid-Fi   Hi-Fi   Download: Lo-Fi   Mid-Fi   Hi-Fi (Excerpt from track 'Lightning and Snow')

Weighing in at just a touch under the eighty minute mark you certainly get plenty of musical weight for you money with SCD! Can't really work out what's behind the unlikely title, the packaging is a bit of an enigma with Gothic lettering adorning an olde-worlde book which looks a bit like the book of the dead yet it's titled 'Book of Love', and what any of this has to do with EM I don't know. I've a feeling it's related to the friendships which Boele Gerkes attributes as a big factor in the release of SCD music, it could also I suppose be symptomatic of the approach which Boele takes to the music - he does everything out of a love for the music, he produces EM with a very personal appeal - and luckily for us his taste seems to be very widely appealing!

This is another classic slab of sequenced and melodic music. I could go through it track by track but if you are an SCD fan already then you'll know what to expect, if not then read one of the other SCD reviews to realise that fans of 80's TD and a smattering of Jarre will be in their element here. If anything initial auditions of this album will reveal that it's possibly even more melodic and commercial than 'The Last Gate'. Certainly the rhythmics and sequencing are of the foot tapping variety pitched high in the register, and the melodies often soar in glorious fashion. And in common with 'TLG' this album is probably more consistent than 'Megacatz', not quite as varied but it seems to hit the mark much more often.