Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
Four musicians reflect on the DIY culture that inspired the spread of electronic music, and on what’s changed in the intervening four decades.
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The Tapes: Selected Works 1982-1992
For a sampling of daring, unique underground industrial music from the Mediterranean, this is a document well worth studying and enjoying.
Drew McDowall: Collapse
The kind of collapse witnessed here is a slow degeneration and deterioration, one that’s more obsessed with the mutation in the reconfiguration of the seams than the sanguinary remains of those crushed by the bottom falling out.
Gang of Four: What Happens Next
Never so pretty as Content or as clinical as their earliest efforts, this latest album from Gang of Four marks an ugly and interesting new era for the band.
KMFDM: Our Time Will Come
You have to admit that it’s nice to have KMFDM still making music, even if the band’s relevance at this point is in question.
Godflesh: A World Lit Only By Fire
This album's title may suggest that the world is lit only by fire, but Godflesh celebrates the darkness of today to confounding effect.
A Storm of Light: Nations to Flames
There are plenty of grinding riffs and pummeling beats here for those searching for them. Listeners satisfied with that, and with a few vaguely shouted, anthemic refrains against, y’know, oppression, will like this record just fine.
Shifted: Under a Single Banner
Think of Skinny Puppy taking a series of uppers and you have this album's sonic palette.