Reviews
Sturm Café, “Europa!”
Ten years is a long time between LPs, but Sweden’s trad EBM outfit Sturm Café have found new relevance in their own take on old sounds.
iVardensphere, “Fable”
iVardensphere’s fifth (and best) LP is both a homecoming and a departure, with all of the tribal industrial project’s sounds and motifs reuniting fantastically even as it pushes beyond those qualifiers.
199X: Column Gets Heavier
Back by popular demand, Sharon Kyronfive uncovers obscure industrial gems and learns you something! It’s 199X!
Foxxy Newport, “Neutral”
The Mr.Kitty produced debut from the San Francisco based vocalist fuses electropop and other genres into a catchy hybrid.
Prager Handgriff, “Roburit”
The last of a dying breed, Prager Handgriff stay true to their moody brand of EBM twenty five years on.
Cardinal Noire, self-titled
Cardinal Noire’s debut is a fantastic piece of classic electro-industrial, tackling the original masters of the genre head-on.
The Pitch: Kas Product, “Try Out”
The Pitch returns, with Bruce trying to convince Alex of the merits of KaS Product’s classic 1982 LP.
Hecq, “Mare Nostrum”
The new album from elite sound designer and composer Hecq is made up of manipulated recordings of a supercomputer.
Marsheaux, “A Broken Frame”
Marsheaux revisit one of Depeche Mode’s weaker albums using both their own style and that later developed by DM themselves.
Apócrýphos, “The Prisoners Cinema”
A change from the Psychomanteum name marks the next chapter in Robert Kozletsky’s dark ambient progression as Apocryphos.
Celldöd, “Pulsdisco”
Anders Karllson of the Pain Machinery explores some minimal and hypnotic techno-body sounds with his Celldöd project.
Spark!, “Spektrum”
Sweden’s EBM/pop hybrid Spark! faces the departure of its singer by delegating to a wide range of noted guest vocalists.
