Die Form - Rayon X

2019-05-27 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 4072

"Everything comes from black and loses itself in white" - the motto of the newest Die Form album are the words of Louis Bertand Castel, eighteenth-century scholar and pioneer of visual music, who tried to connect sound waves with visible electromagnetic waves. Today, it seems that it is the French...

Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul

2021-01-10 / DamienG / Reads: 3023

This is not a nice looking cover – 'Mechanical Soul's artwork is reminiscent of their past aesthethic but somehow cheapend. The colour pallet is evocative of the game soundtrack 'Warmech' but the actual visual collage of elements harkens back to the 2000's. Front Line Assembly keeps repurposing itself with this...

Kanga - You and I Will Never Die

2021-04-28 / DamienG / Reads: 3047

Sometimes, the evolution of the inherent properties of a project is so easy to notice and yet so unexpected – when considered alongside the expectations of their output – that it takes the listener a moment, a song or two, or even a duration of the album, to adjust. You...

Clicks - G.O.T.H.

2021-05-12 / DamienG / Reads: 1974

Kr-Lik waved goodbye to Controlled Collapse but his creative impulses shine through with Clicks – his more straightforwardly electro-oriented project that seems neither side nor intellectually subservient to the moody catalog of his now defunct industrial persona. The songwriting ability behind the music was always his most transparent accomplishment....

Gary Numan - Intruder

2021-07-01 / DamienG / Reads: 3606

He has been capable of shifting aesthethics, like a conceptual chameleon, in drastic, broad movements, only to emerge on the other side – as a gentleman synth pioneer (The Pleasure Principle), survivor of the Earth undone (Warriors) or mad-hatter of a fractured psyche (Splinter) – a musician fully in control...

Golden Apes - Satori

2021-07-16 / khocico / Reads: 4064

Satori in Zen Buddhism means awakening, enlightenment. The point when everything becomes clear gets into the right place in the puzzle and reaches completeness. The moment Golden Apes released such a single is significant, indeed. Even though it may not be directly related to the pandemic in the lyrics...