Hocico - Lost World EP

2021-12-07 / DamienG / Reads: 3974

On the verge of celebrating thirty years of unwavering commitment to their chosen brand of industrial electronics, Hocico might be one of the few premiere aggrotech bands, still true to that formula and still capable of capitalizing on its well trodden trademarks. But their music now is not exactly the...

Golden Apes - Satori

2021-07-16 / khocico / Reads: 4316

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...

Gary Numan - Intruder

2021-07-01 / DamienG / Reads: 3855

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...

Clicks - G.O.T.H.

2021-05-12 / DamienG / Reads: 2091

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....

Kanga - You and I Will Never Die

2021-04-28 / DamienG / Reads: 3238

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: 3268

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...