GOBLINS' CLUB

This album do not have many positive points for itself. Unpleasant cover, strange title, does it also features the worst TANGERINE DREAM music from the 90's? Maybe not. "Goblin's Club" shows a slight evolution from the previous record. Less rock-riented, the musicians now incorporates more modern ambient/world music elements, in the styles of DEEP FOREST or ENIGMA. However the proposed metarial here is still globally mediocre.

As in the previous record, the first track is undoubtly the most interesting. "Towards the Evening Star" is catchy and contains unexpected progressions. A nice surprise, but unfornately the only good composition here. The rest of the album sometimes introduces original sonorities, but not developed enough and caught in the flow of flat and rather boring melodies.

Although presenting style improvements, "Goblin's Club" is not really better than the former 90's releases of our german dreamers. At least, it will be the last TANGERINE DREAM of its kind of this decade. On their next studio album, the band will recover their lost creativity...