CD-R, self-released, 2008 www.synchdub.com A decently sinister approach kicks off this neat little seven-tracker. Cleverly layered backwards folding drones are given carriage with warm filtered bass lines and simplistic but [ … ]
Tag: 2008
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words – Lost in Reflections
7″ + LP, Fang Bomb/iDEAL Recordings/Release the Bats/When Skies Are Grey, 2008 www.deadwords.org “Lost in Reflections” is the fourth main album from Swedish artist Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words [ … ]
Tracy Lee Summers – My Favourite Color
CD-R, More Mars Team, 2008 www.myspace.com/tracyleesummers Now and then, one is lucky enough to encounter music that defies classification, especially in this modern age of hybridization and cross-pollinated genre-hopping. Tracy [ … ]
Broken Fabiola – Severed
CD, Tympanik Audio, 2008 www.myspace.com/brokenfabiola To give a summary: for those, for expediency’s sake, who would prefer reading a preface – Broken Fabiola’s “Severed” is an affectively stimulating album. Though [ … ]
System:FX – High Definition Violence
CD, self-released, 2008 www.vampirefreaks.com/system_fx Listening to System:FX is an entirely frustrating process. This is largely due to the vast potential discernible in their work (especially on the opening track, “Virus”) [ … ]
Babylone Chaos – Les Machines Ecarlates
CD, OPN, 2008 babylonechaos.free.fr The title of this album appears to translate to “The Scarlet Machines”, with the liner notes painting a portrait of a body at war with itself, [ … ]
Techny-Call X – Evolution
CD, Danse Macabre, 2008 www.technycallx.com Apart from their misleading and generally unintelligible name (their logo, TCX, rolls off the tongue far easier – an important lesson in brand reinforcement to [ … ]
Körperwelten – Avatars Of Rape And Rage
CD, Malignant Records, 2008 www.malignantrecords.com Extreme music demands extreme imagery, and as power electronics and death industrial are about as extreme as music can be, so the associated themes covered [ … ]
Blipvert – Stop:Stronk:Explode!
CD, D-trash Records, 2008 www.myspace.com/blipvert1 Words that immediately spring to mind when describing Blipvert are disorientating, experimental and varied. Other words would be irritating, boring and uninspiring. Blipvert, aka Will [ … ]
Die Baader-Meinhof Gruppe/Red Army Faction – Die Baader-Meinhof Gruppe/Red Army Faction
CD, Vanity Publishing, 2008 www.dbmg-raf.com Normally, I am not one to draw inspiration from the life and actions of fanatics but the appeal of the underdogs, rebels fighting against a [ … ]