It was only a matter of time before someone added obvious hooks and electronic smarts to the post-industrial roar of alt-metal. That's exactly what Orgy does on its debut album, Candyass. It's hard to call this stuff industrial, since its sensibilities are directly out of metal -- hard-hitting riffs, big hooks, and tight songwriting -- but since Orgy is living in the electronica age, everything is given a computerized surface, complete with processed guitars and thundering digital bits. It's a now sound, no two ways about -- it's of the moment, totally 1998, and that's why it's hard to actually judge its merits. Candyass has the intoxicating rush of a new sound, but it's hard not to feel like all of its pleasures are on the surface. Still, you take pleasures where you can get them, and Orgy offers more than expected on this promising debut. It was only a matter of time before someone added obvious hooks and electronic smarts to the post-industrial roar of alt-metal. That's exactly what Orgy does on its debut album, Candyass. It's hard to call this stuff industrial, since its sensibilities are directly out of metal -- hard-hitting riffs, big hooks, and tight songwriting -- but since Orgy is living in the electronica age, everything is given a computerized surface, complete with processed guitars and thundering digital bits. It's a now sound, no two ways about -- it's of the moment, totally 1998, and that's why it's hard to actually judge its merits. Candyass has the intoxicating rush of a new sound, but it's hard not to feel like all of its pleasures are on the surface. Still, you take pleasures where you can get them, and Orgy offers more than expected on this promising debut. false 2023-07-15 14:32:56 Candyass 8.7 1998 1998-09-25 1998-09-25 48 Industrial Rock 113074 2122492 cb736e16-518f-4a5a-9e1b-6d7808ee2d8d 5bb2a9c8-3505-4c45-9717-19f0f8f35425 d5c68eee-cd79-3f26-9358-8a92a729c6fe /media/data/media4/Music/Orgy/Candyass/folder.jpg Orgy Orgy 1 1 Social Enemies 04:05 1 2 Stitches 03:18 1 3 Dissention 03:32 1 4 Platinum 03:42 1 5 Fetisha 04:02 1 6 Fiend 04:29 1 7 Blue Monday 04:26 1 8 Gender 04:27 1 9 All the Same 04:05 1 10 Pantomime 04:28 1 11 Revival 04:09 1 12 Dizzy 03:21 Orgy is an American industrial rock band formed in 1997, from Los Angeles, California. They have described their music as "death pop". The band is best known for their cover version of the New Order song "Blue Monday", and the song "Stitches", both from their 1998 album Candyass. Then they released their second album, Vapor Transmission, which was released in 2000, with "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)" and "Opticon" as singles.