“Industrialised sexualised overtly punk action with slabs of offensive aggression? This is glorious, gratuitous bad taste and pleasure with an exquisite crass guaranteed…”
electronica
Back on form. Back on heat. Back on scuzz. Welcome to this month’s sonic roundup…
“‘Hollow’ is still as dystopian and bleak as anything ‘Part One’ delivered, but here the organics take over…”
“While the song title guides us towards once-loved objects, it’s up to us how we view that attachment. Are we glad to have had or just sorry it’s gone? Our response might just shift with each listen….”
“At once based in the bleak sounds of dimly lit futures and rooted in bands of the past, it’s immersive and potent and stark…”
The best of submissions, reviewed tracks, the almost-reviewed… and a fistfull of this month’s best music!
“With the subtle synth dreamwave of Washed Out and Teen Daze, we tiptoe on 80s and shoegaze…”
“On its own it’s a slow play of ambient electronica that wallows in grim repetitions, as a film it plays up to its strengths as a soundtrack to abstract and ominous imagery…”
“Following 2019’s singles ‘Smoke’ & ‘The Gallows’, with their delicate electronics and stop-motion jitter, comes the long worked-on debut EP. ‘Addict’ builds on those tracks and progresses, spinning outwards in cool new directions…”
“As we fold in Crystal Castles, Heartrevolution, and recall the charred chaos of Cabaret Voltaire, what comes out is a cold blend of agropop sonics with a sly twist of hardcore macabre…”
Rats on the Run 