eMOTIVe (2004)

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I knew absolutely nothing about this album at the moment it came to me, and only when the second track began to play with well-known to many words "imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try..." and I looked at track list attentively, I understood that "Emotive" is an album of covers. I'd listened to another album by Perfect Circle before and it had made a quite favourable impression on me, but this album... My Lord, what have they done with optimistic John Lennon's "Imagine"? It became sounding incredibly dark and depressive. Actually, every track on this album is performed in depressive manner with some industrial influences, so if I haven't listened to the original songs before, I would never guess who the real authors of these songs are. This especially regards to the instrumental track "When the Levee Breaks", which is performed in such an eccentric manner, so I still don't understand if this is Led Zeppelin's song cover or not. Very strange album. Why have they recorded it?