It's been a while since a radioplay shook the world, 'The War Of The Worlds' dates if I'm not mistaken from 1938. I am not sure who Hennig Lundkvist is (this is his first release for Komplott) and to what extent he was influenced by Orson Wells. The album is "based on a number of conceptually and visually thematic performances in galleries throughout Sweden and Europe" and deals with the sampling of all sorts of sound material, based "around a post-apocalyptic theme" it says on the website. Since there is hardly a real story and just a thirty-two minute stream of sound, which kicks off with some orchestral music that suggests fear, a classic film soundtrack for a horror music. But in the end the voices kick in and the 'story' (as far as there is one) is about war, nuclear treat and such like, and the voices, taped from TV, radio, film and such like are stuck together but never the impression arises that this is a real story. The whole thing is rather alienating than a hörspiel to heard and experienced. Now it sounds merely like a long collage of spoken word and music about the end of the world lacks real strength and the message gets lost.
