ALBUM REVIEW: Nine Inch Noize – Nine Inch Noize – The Null Corporation 


Nine Inch Noize is a collaborative album between producer Alex Ridha, aka Boys Noize, and Nine Inch Nails. Or at least that is how it’s being billed. The truth is, this is a remix album. Supposedly, live performances might be mixed in as well, but we can get to that later. Nine Inch Nails these days is basically just Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.  If you are looking for the big arena Rock riffs, that is not happening; these songs are strictly electronic. That’s not to say the synths don’t have heft, and Reznor’s voice roots it in the sound you expect from him. The track listing replicates their Coachella set list.  Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: KMFDM – ENEMY


If you have gone through life thinking KMFDM stands for “Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode” instead of meaning “no pity for the majority (Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid)” then you might have missed a few inside jokes over the years. But it is easy to catch up as the band continues its forty years of conceptual continuity. Granted, even the continuous concept has changed, which can be heard on their newest offering ENEMY (Metropolis Records), yet even with the more rock n roll vibes that open the album, you can still check off all the boxes you expect from the long-running electro-industrial band. Their new guitarist knows what the job description calls for, and Sascha Konietzco continues to steer the ship in the right direction. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: The Cure – Mixes of a Lost World


The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World was my favorite album of 2024, so hearing it remixed by 24 different artists gave me pause. It’s not the first time Robert Smith has loosened his notoriously tight grip to allow artists to remix his work. With Mixes of Lost World (Fiction Records), it’s obvious Smith was in control of curating who he trusted with these songs. There are the obvious culprits who you almost expect having their hand in a re-mix album like Paul Oakenfold and Oribital, then he handed it over to bands in his close circle like tour-mates The Twilight Sad and Mogwai to not just prep the songs for the dance floor but applied their instruments into their reworkings which were both very true to the creative spirt of the band.  Continue reading →