Well, it's an equally unhelpful idea that the only sacred cows in PE come from 30 odd years ago.
I've only ever heard good things - sometimes bordering on evangelical - about Nicole12 but after plenty of listening over many years I struggle to get past some very basic stumbling blocks. I think the music is great: excellently composed and often minimal synth textures with great pacing. But much of the lyrical quantity of the work (which surely nobody could deny is integral to the project?) is riddled with quite bad writing and even some pretty broken English at times! Maybe that can't be helped and is unfair to pick on, but it prevents the project from fully building the world that I think it is trying to. From listening, the overarching feeling I still have is of a person who has decided to do an industrial project about paedophilia rather than the bare bones expose it is often heralded as. I dont feel it particularly makes any interest statements about it's subjects beyond identifying in detail that things like that exist, and it feels like just making these references and saying these things explicitly is enough for people to buy into it as a super provocative project. N12 is made for and consumed almost exclusively by an audience well aware of what to expect from the genre and many of these people will have clear knowledge that this person talking is Mikko Aspa rather than a pervy dad cumming on his daughters shoes. Whether or not it is the case for anyone else, these things really prevent me from finding the project that affecting, and so in these contexts I'd agree with Leewar that it is pretty safe. Enjoyable, sure.
All just my very humble opinion of course...but I think there are more passes given to projects in the worlds of Noise and PE owing to who is behind them and what they are about than many folk would like to admit, and that buck doesn't begin and end with middle aged men who were in Whitehouse.
