Blanck Mass: World Eater
Blanck Mass' World Eater is a humongous, terrifying slab of electronic noise and a party record for the apocalypse.
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Archive: The False Foundation
Despite some exciting and vital moments, The False Foundation struggles to cohere into a cogent statement befitting of a legitimately scary political moment.
Nicolas Jaar: Sirens
Sirens is a masterpiece. Melding pop and experimental music, it reflects the uneasiness of our difficult times.
lovelesslust – ‘The Car Crash That Ended Her Life Came As No Surprise’ (album stream) (premiere)
L.A.-based industrial art rock group releases atmospheric debut after eight years of work.
PIG – “The Diamond Sinners” (video) (premiere)
“The Diamond Sinners” is exactly what you might expect from a man who’s been making industrial for thirty years — and that’s a very good thing.
Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
Four musicians reflect on the DIY culture that inspired the spread of electronic music, and on what’s changed in the intervening four decades.
The Tapes: Selected Works 1982-1992
For a sampling of daring, unique underground industrial music from the Mediterranean, this is a document well worth studying and enjoying.
Drew McDowall: Collapse
The kind of collapse witnessed here is a slow degeneration and deterioration, one that’s more obsessed with the mutation in the reconfiguration of the seams than the sanguinary remains of those crushed by the bottom falling out.
Gang of Four: What Happens Next
Never so pretty as Content or as clinical as their earliest efforts, this latest album from Gang of Four marks an ugly and interesting new era for the band.
KMFDM: Our Time Will Come
You have to admit that it’s nice to have KMFDM still making music, even if the band’s relevance at this point is in question.
Godflesh: A World Lit Only By Fire
This album's title may suggest that the world is lit only by fire, but Godflesh celebrates the darkness of today to confounding effect.
A Storm of Light: Nations to Flames
There are plenty of grinding riffs and pummeling beats here for those searching for them. Listeners satisfied with that, and with a few vaguely shouted, anthemic refrains against, y’know, oppression, will like this record just fine.