With his already fourth full length album, the third under the wings of the US-label DSBP, this well known Electro/EBM act hailing from France returns and has grown to a constant number in the DSBP stable. Vince Pujol can easily be called an established act of this label, also thanks to his numerous activities with his side project BIO-MECHANICAL DEGENERATION, his uncountable collaboration efforts for DIVERJE, plus several remix works for some label colleges like FREQUENCY CONSTRUCT or TYPE001. "Wounds And Scars" now is the new opus of THE Sci-Fi/Electro specialist alive and provides 12 new tracks and two different and alternative versions of the both tracks "It Hurts" and "Humanity Collapsing". Needless to say that you’ll get again the full dose of futuristic Electro/EBM/Industrial music, modern sounds and skillful arrangements, highly pitched and distorted vocals and complexity in all compositions. Vince’s work is again a little masterpiece and can be used as a demonstration lesson for all the retarded "get-hard-be-strong" artists out there. Also this workbench shows some development and maturity since his past album, Vince now also adds here and there some guitar riffs to strengthen the globally rough mood of some tracks ("Blood On The Walls", also featured on the last Interbreeding 8 compilation, "Final Dream" and "Humanity Collapsing"). Maybe a "slap-in-face" for the purists here, that also ESR tends to use that hatred acoustic instrument, but be sure that Vince hasn’t become a Metal-head or something alike. The guitars are mostly subtle placed, more a kind of background noise, maybe somehow comparable with the current works of DEPESSIVE DISORDER. There can be also noticed a stronger dedication to fill in well worked out synth sweeps and layers, which is also a development of the harder attitude of his predessor album "Persistence". Lyrically Vince takes besides some sci-fi influenced parts a very critically look on the behaviour of mankind regarding nature, pollution, violence and infernos generally – but I’ve (may) also found some depressive content placed in "Nothing Stays" (no CYBERAKTIF here!!!) which could be seen as an autobiographical comment – the artist needs to be asked for this. So if you have already the one or another output of this talented act in your CD collection, then – no doubt – you’ll need this new one as well! As usually after receiving a new ESR album, there's only one open question: how to top this album?