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ALBUM REVIEW: ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye – Dais Records 

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ADULT. has become a staple of dark electronic music, moving dance floors for 25 years. Kissing Luck Goodbye (Dais Records) continues their sonic legacy, even if it takes it in an unexpected direction. The project’s sound fall closet to industrial than darkwave in terms of aggression, though Nicola Kuperus‘ vocals are certainly influenced by it. Their industrial slant should not be surprising, considering one of their frequent collaborators was Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb (RIP). The stomping anger of the track would be post-punk if this were being made by guitars. Leaning heavier into the electronics for ” R U 4 SALE”, where they take complete control of the dance floor with buzzing synths grooving chaotically,  even the lyrics admit that “the chaos is what they want”. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Health – Conflict DLC

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For their 6th full-length CONFLICT DLC (Loma Vista Recordings) HEALTH chose to work with pop-producer Stint, whose work has included Ke$ha and Demi Lovato. In some ways this streamlined their sound by taking away some of the noisy edges that had raged in the periphery of previous albums.But the core mood is their giving you the depressive androgynous vibes  juxtaposed against the more hammering industrial march they are known for. This can be heard on  “Ordinary Loss” that opens the album.  Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Cold In Berlin – Wound

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Despite being from London, Cold in Berlin once again lives up to their name, as it conjures, stark, wintry urban landscape at night. Wounds (New Heavy Sounds) finds the band going further down the path they wandered down on their previous album, which found them more fully committing to their crossover into doom. The opening track of their new album blurs the lines even further, carrying a darker, more pulsating beat. Vocalist Maya belts things out with the expected intensity of her aching alto. The hypnotic pulse of “12 Crosses” shares some common ground with grunge from the nineties, as more exotic flourishes of atmosphere are also employed. Continue reading →