Vaiping
The great polar expedition
Karisma Records
Able to coalesce both fluid melodies and the crude, brutal sound that defines the industrial genre, Vaiping are a strange and interesting group. Though, while songs like "Vaiping on the rocks" and "The great polar expedition" are able to captivatingly capture this melodic industrial tone, some songs - namely "Vaiping vaiping" and "Vaiping export" - amble down almost hokey roads, reminiscent of the oddities of the 80s and 90s dance scene. Overall, Vaiping's effort is an extremely potholed affair, with the downsides easily outweighing the moments of intensity.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
