Reviews
Eisbrecher, “Zehn Jahre Kalt”
Eisbrecher’s odds and sods comp for the North American market has utility in introducing new ears to the Neue Deutsche Härte band.
High-Functioning Flesh, “A Misery of Unities – A Unity of Miseries”
The first major release from High-Functioning Flesh makes good on the LA duo’s promise, welding pure synth-punk aggression to slightly more ambitious compositions.
Masticated Existence, “Electronic Bloody Music”
Intern Tobey reviews the terr0r rave project’s sophomore album, and finds it pleasing.
Combichrist, “We Love You”
The biggest band of the last decade of industrial club music struggle in their transition into a full-fledged electro-rock act.
THYX, “Super Vision”
The third THYX LP in less than two years consolidates Stefan Poiss’ ambitions outside of mind.in.a.box, and prompts reevaluation of his body of work.
Police Des Moeurs, self-titled
Classic synthpop with an out of bounds sensibility from the Montreal based project.
Observer: March 21st, 2014
We head into the weekend with capsule reviews of releases by Becoming the Devourer, Multicolor, and Negru Voda & Knös.
Philipp Münch & Loss, “Transcontinental Desperation”
The creative meeting of Ant-Zen roster artists Dan Fox of Loss and Phillip Münch of Synapscape sounds pretty much as you would expect it to.
Replicas: The Fourth Man, self-titled
A reissue by Vancouver’s oft-overlooked The Fourth Man emerges from the vaults with raw electro-industrial which sounds utterly fresh in 2014.
Seeming, “Madness & Extinction”
The debut album from Seeming (Alex Reed and Aaron Fuleki, ex-of ThouShaltNot) is a meditation on the end of everything we know, everything we care about, delivered in the form of a sublimely executed pop record.
MEND, “Vanishing Point”
MEND’s debut perfectly consolidates the Chicago IDM project’s uncanny mix of the familiar and the alien.
Displacer & Nimon, “House of the Dying Sun”
Two noted artists from the IDM end of Our Thing collaborate on a smooth and shoegazey release for Hymen records.
