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Another Life by Kaleidoscope Magazine

I've always had plenty of time for greenhaus. They started off producing simple club techno and did that very well. They then progressed towards spacerocky territory after adding guitars to the sound and did that even better. Now they've taken a quantum leap forward and the results are mightily impressive. This is full of terrific songwriting that demostrates that Greenhaus truely deserve to rise to bigger public acclaim. There's a bunch of well chosen guest vocalists too: Liz Green (Swarf), Roi Robertson (Mechanical Cabaret) and Dandrine Gouriou (Seize) all contribute. But it's the inclusion of new lead female vocalist Lahannya that really helps Greenhaus sound step clearly into the mainstream. There's a cover of The Cure's 'Plainsong' that is simply terrific and 'One Day Closer' continues the band's love affair with Joy Division. This is overtly commercial - in the Rhys Fulber sense of commercial, in that it retains a distinctive style all of its own and yet has a distinctly accessible quality (all the time retaining credibility) that really ought to see Greenhaus achieve wider acclaim and well-deserved professional success. It is hard to single out favourite tracks as the whole thing is that consistently strong. This is a great album simple as that. Go and buy it.

Rob Dyer

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