Reviews
Beauty Queen Autopsy, “Lotharia”
Unwoman and Caustic team-up to make dark electronic pop that stands apart from both artist’s individual catalogues.
Stendeck, “Folgor”
Stendeck rewards the patient with an IDM tour de force.
Observer: June 24th, 2015
Reviews of new releases by The Agnes Circle, Radiumhospitalet, and Worms Of The Earth.
Solitary Experiments, “Memorandum”
The new fanset from Solitary Experiments highlights how good the melodic electro-industrial act are at mining their own catalogue for content.
Volt 9000, “Timeshift”
Volt 9000 step into the murkier side of the psyche on their melodic yet haunting fifth record.
Nightmare Fortress, “The Wanting”
The first full length from Nightmare Fortress shows aggressive and subtle sides of the Seattle act in equal measure.
Vanligt Folk, “Jag Har Utvecklat Mig Till Både En Hund I En Katt”
Inscrutable Swedish wavers stay downtempo and weird on their debut full length.
In Conversation: High-Functioning Flesh, “Definite Structures”
The Senior Staff discusses how High-Functioning Flesh’s second LP spirals out into a liberated panoply of sampling, rhythm, and harmony.
Weird Candle, “Regeneration”
The debut LP from Weird Candle catches Vancouver’s synthpunk upstarts in the blur of their own evolution.
Pure Ground, “Standard of Living”
A new album of pulsing, skeletal industrialized synth music from Los Angeles’ Pure Ground.
Observer: May 26th, 2015
Capsule reviews of releases by Randal Collier-Ford, More Ephemerol and Cyborgs on Crack.
Black Nail Cabaret, “Harry Me Marry Me Bury Me Bite Me”
The amazing voice we first heard on Architect’s “Mine” returns with her own project’s sophomore record of classy synth noir.
