Kanga - You and I Will Never Die

2021-04-28 / DamienG / Reads: 3050

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...

Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul

2021-01-10 / DamienG / Reads: 3028

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...

Die Form - Rayon X

2019-05-27 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 4077

"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...

Vanguard - Retribution

2018-04-28 / carpenterk / Reads: 4201

Synthpop is a genre represented  in large number in Sweden, inter alia by Hjärta, Melody Club, Page, SPOCK and many others.  VANGURAD in another band from this country, that fits very well to the '80 atmosphere of electronics.  The last day of February 2014 brought us a new album from...

Einstürzende Neubauten - Lament

2018-04-06 / Alastor / Reads: 4696

And so it happened!. After 7 years of waiting, gentlemen's from Einstürzende Neubauten released a new album. Is it on the same level as the previous ones? Yes and no ….... Why?  Avant-grade works has always been difficult to review. They try to overcome certain adopted conventions  and for this reason,...

Job Karma - Society Suicide

2018-01-19 / carpenterk / Reads: 5360

After release of album in 2010, the band Job Karma decided to take a long break. Work on the new material began in November 2012 and came to an end in February 2014. And so, on May 11 of 2014, we got released on CD and on vinyl a new...