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“The voices in Klayton’s head need some recommendations for new music pronto.”

Well Klayton sure has his hands full.  Between trying to release the last couple chapters of Wish Upon A Blackstar, he’s been finishing other unreleased EP’s and volumes in his never ending saga.  Soundtrack For The Voices In My Head Vol. 2 is the second installment in this series and it doesn’t flourish as well as any of his other material, at all.  This four track EP is supported on the first “half” by three tracks that see Klayton take his direction from heavy industrial rock to recycling riffs that sound like b-sides off a Chevelle or Breaking Benjamin album.  The latter “half” of the EP is a twenty minute ambient monster that while not being the most creative piece he’s ever written is still much more refreshing than listening to his feeble attempt to create instrumental songs for video games soundtracks. 

“The Sentinel” appears at a glance to be the most industrial sounding track on this short EP.  Using distortive beats and ditching most of the riffs from the previous two songs, it’s the short album’s only song with multiple replay value. The ambient piece to this album, “Adrift on Celestial Seas” is twenty minutes of calming soundscapes and spacey interludes.  While it could have been shorter and the sound doesn’t vary much it would be the perfect song to help fill the background music for a game such as Mass Effect.  With so many minor releases under his belt the question to ask is, why isn’t he focusing on releasing something of quality like Celldweller again?  The question will probably go unanswered for us but maybe this is what the voices in his head are telling him to create.