We Are Rabbits - True Force

I had many a problem when last I spoke of We Are Rabbits, a hardcore electronic project blending all sorts of nonsense together with a signature focus on gabber. While they were on the brink of something good, the project continually failed to deliver thanks to muddy production and stock sounds – intentional or not. However, with their new EP “True Force”, We Are Rabbits have elevated the listening experience by stripping down elements and refocusing their mix. 

‘Ghost Gun’ is the first to appear on the album and it’s one that kind of threw me off. A simple ambient experiment, short-handed at one-minute and forty-eight seconds, but just enough to set the mood. Sci-fi-ish cinematic soundscapes. 

The title track comes in next with a rampant gabber bassline that slowly leads into the bulk of the song. Plenty of synth drops that gave me tingles across my spine; it’s something right out of a rhythm action game. The only issue I had with this song are the samples placed throughout; unfitting and a bit annoying when the music sounds as good as it does. The gunshot sound effects were also piss poor; if you’re going to use a gun effect, make it explosive like a super shotgun. Not a pea shooter.

‘Come and Get It’ has an ominous opening featuring dreadful synths, a bassline military march as if an unholy infernal army is about to crush earth. Varied gabber featurettes, plenty of differentiation from phase-to-phase. Again, my only complaint comes down to the vocal samples which I don’t believe should have been used. The final track on the EP is ‘Mutilated’. A much more noisy affair for those fond of static goodness and fuzzy basslines. It’s a good frolic through a myriad of electronic genres; but, again, marred by disappointing samples.

This is MUCH better from We Are Rabbits that I first met. But “True Force” isn’t without a major flaw. Which is, as I have repeated throughout the review, the samples. If they would have gotten rid of those and strictly focused on the instrumentals being just that, I would have bumped this score up by a point or half of a point.