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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Entertainment / Movement Magazine

We're interviewed in Movement Magazine:

http://www.movementmagazine.com/onlinefeatures/entertainment/entertainment.htm

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Entertainment / Grave Jibes Fanzine

We're featured in Issue 6 of the Russian Fanzine. Grave Jibes

Download it here:

http://gravejibes.com/downloads/

And here's the "press-release" of the issue:

We're finally back to you, dear readers, in day of the first birthday of the fanzine (yes, it all started in November, 4th last year) with the new, 6th issue! With this issue we offer you a mad and creepy trip, during which you'll make acquaintance or, if you already have met each other, will know more about cult and mysterious darkwave/deathrock Italian band Il Giardino Violetto, the new USA art-deathrock stars Entertainment, De Kift, - intellectual-punk weirdos from Netherlands, and also, apart from other bands, you will know what moves people who starts indie-labels nowadays and+ how to cook "Head Cheese"!All this and many-many more in Grave Jibes Fanzine #6.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Entertainment / Blessure Grave / Stereogum

We got a mention about our tour with Blessure Grave on Stereo Gum, it's almost like we almost fell on a radar:

http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new_blessure_grave_video__open_or_shut_096911.html

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Entertainment / Heathen harvest

heathen harvest has posted a new review of Gender.

Sometimes it does feel like we've been around for decades.

Entertainment is a band from Athens, Giorgia United States and they have been on the scene for some decades, hidden from the light exposure by crawling from one underground club to another almost anonymously and just sporadically delivering an album or an EP to corroborate their existence. Their aim is Death Rock with the perspective from the forefathers of the genre; so you’ll get the bouquet from some of the crude Bauhaus experimentalism, the morbid cadence from Christian Death’s Rozz Williams era and the psychedelic bleakness from early PIL, a pinch of the catchy Play Dead’s bass & drum interplay amongst a whole bunch of other dynamic subterfuges added by the quartet. A carnal angst and most defined death wish impregnate the whole atmosphere of the album, a detail clearly expressed by the suggestive cover, you’ll survive their nightmare, will your mind do the same?

“Gender” is an album that demands certain mood for you to bear it, otherways you’ll get flattened by its heaviness and perhaps it will make you reluctant to take the ride. Heavy and morose, that’s all about it, a condition that is expressed by the music, the rhythm and the atmosphere it does expand during its relatively short timeline, 36 minutes of a heartless descent into the miasma of monolithic bass lines with lots of bleak guitar chords drenched in the dismal perversity of an arrhythmic funeral march and covered with some pale synth lines that look as if were taken from a zombie movie. A veil of misery and despair slowly takes hold with each subsequent track and keeps its gelid grasp into the dissonant call of the grave upon the listener’s shoulder. Entertainment speculate a bit with their assertions on their monolithic Death Rock conception, taking time to vary the structure with savage dissonance on the rhythms, making abrupt cuts and collapsing rhythmic changes that ultimately seems like the drummer is experiencing a seizure. These intentional arrhythmias augments the vertigo from the loathing vocals by Trey Ehart and creates a vaccuum to twisted synths along with virulent bass lines. In “A seduction walks” things go wild, the voice is subdued behind the procession of riffs and the pulse from the bass and drums and lots of echo are spilled upon it to create this drugged like tone, this demented ambience of carnivore dementia. “Flesh” is a superb track to end it all, with its bell like resonance delivered by the synths behind the strong drum and the pounding bass lines with a Robert Smith-esque vocal flirt on top, a kicking finale.

After a while it results obvious that the monolithic structure chosen to express this catacomb like sound for Death Rock is unable to give anything else but its relentless mix of succulent bass lines vs epileptic drum sets and the guitar phantasmagorias drawn by the guitar. The synth additions and the smart turns from echo effects, distortions and acidic feedback cannot let it escape the definitive omen from its own repetition. The guitar section managed by Chisolm Thompson and Trey Erhart focuses way to much to resemble Rozz williams and at times the album reflects way too much the ghost from “Only theatre of pain”, some tracks sound almost like unreleased fragments from “Romeo’s distress”. Aside from that, the album truly finds the black hearted escense from Death rock without subterfuges or sweeteners and faithfully delivers the noble grace from its grave call.

http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20090929213915201

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Entertainment / I Could Die Tomorrow

Gender is reviewed and posted on I Could Die Tomorrow. Thanks iCDT. Go leave comments. +++

"Here's something that flew under my radar when it was initially released. The debut LP from Georgia's post-punk/goth stalwart Entertainment is an excellent ride through post-2000s death rock (is that what it's called?). Clearly, this is not something I'm really an expert on, but here's my misinformed take on the album:

The band seems to take its cues from goth legends Christian Death and 45 Grave (Confession/Real Talk: I think these are the only death rock bands I listen to, let alone can actually name) with a little bit ofPornography-era Cure thrown in the mix. What this amounts to is a fairly concise, eight-song album that is just the right length. Their setup is fairly conventional for the genre: Creepy keyboards/organs create a foreboding. atmosphere, while wiry guitars and a pounding, yet subdued rhythm section holds everything together. The vocals are actually really effective, as his delivery isn't ridiculous and dramtic and his lyrics are in no way hilariously verbose. What I'm saying is that I don't laugh at him like I would if I was listening to the unintentional comedy gold of Rozz Williams.

One slight problem with the album is that in maintaining such a uniform atmosphere, one can get a little too carried away and, towards the end, things start to blend together a little too much. This is not to say the album is homogeneous, but its atmosphere can have this effect. Maybe I just have ADD. However, before one can get completely lulled away, the album ends on "Flesh!," which is a really sick ending to the album and probably my favorite song from the band. It's really awesome. Since my understanding of this specific subgenre is pretty elementary, let's just say this song is Entertainment's "Romeo's Distress." I suck.

Anyway, I encourage you all to check this album out. It's a really great modern take on 80s post-punk that doesn't sound too contrived or ham-fisted. Also, for what it's worth, it was voted the album of the year on deathrock.com. I guess that's cool?"

http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/

Scroll down to WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 to find it.

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Entertainment / Shadowtime NYC

Kristen Sollee has a review of our show in Brooklyn last weekend:

A slow burn of anarchic pleasures moving between pounding, tribal vigor and creeping, Gothic slither, few bands can make music this cold and abyssal so fiery and enticing. Frontman Trey Ehart switched between keys and guitar whilst alternating between seething seriousness, eyes piercing through the fog, and gleeful, devilish half grins - even efortlessly telling one heckler to "fuck off" with the same bratty bravado. Although I reviewed Entertainment's most recent release, Gender, for The Big Takeover, the band's sound live comes across as more vital and unique. Not merely a tarted up younger sibling of Christian Death or the Virgin Prunes, Entertainment forge beyond their influences with inimitable style, snapping sonic sinew in their wake, leaving listeners bruised and scorched in an auralgasmic aftermath. Post-show, you'll likely require a frozen cold shower.

the rest:

http://www.shadowtimenyc.com/2009/09/entertainmentrevel-hotelwhite-light.html

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