A new Pop Group album (and it’s good!), the last Birthday Party record, the truth about Plastic Bertrand and a book about Düsseldorf.
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Category: Industrial
As the head of Emily Kaye lay upon the coals, the dead eyes opened.
Death in Rome: Max Martin did nothing wrong. And the touchier aspects of neofolk.
Death in Rome do neofolk covers of pop. And what’s neofolk? Well.
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Celebrate the day with a goth pool party.
What do you do with ten black bath bombs? Plus a goth dance howto. And proof that cyberpunk is real.
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Reviews: Nápoles, Damsel in the Dollhouse, Digital Logic (2016).
So I use the Bandcamp new arrivals as a radio, so what, so should you. Jangly guitar indie, goth-industrial dance and some straight-up vaporwave.
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J. G. Ballard and music. How to write the entire New Wave into being.
Post-punk’s favourite writer, who didn’t listen to music himself. It’s all about the imagery.
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Reviews: The Royal They, Unity One, Graveyard Love (2016).
Pre-grunge-style indie rock, EBM synthpop and disorienting synthesizer-guitar landscapes.
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Links: Negativland, Diamond Rio MP3, Dylan, writing.
The ultimate in merchandising, reviving an old gadget, Dylan as writer, me as writer.
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Links: bad lyrical subjects, worse record companies, Psychic TV and Polka Floyd.
Don’t whinge or povertysplain, worse music industry players, Psychic TV’s film Kickstarter and a reworking that works too well.
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Reviews: Frustration, Logic + Olivia, Beborn Beton, Disjecta Membra (2016).
Back to the goth, industrial and punky post-punk, latest works from bands who’ve been around a while.
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Reviews: Magana, Night Club, Cybercide, Brandenburg (2006, 2016).
Acoustic songwriter guitar rock, new wave disco, pounding futurepop EBM and Russian post-punk revival.
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Reviews: Möss, Ladylike Lily, Faderhead (2016).
Soundscapes with songs, indie pop with synth and guitar, and industrial gone synthpop. Three excellent finds today.
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Witch house is the new coldwave: totally not goth video links.
The nicest Nivek Ogre interview ever, 1984 goth clubbing and Joy Division’s influence on rap.
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Reviews: Növö, District 13, Adhere to Form, Seattle Fix (2016).
Industrial atmospherics, EBM synthpop, ’80s old synth work and dreampop on real instruments.
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Industrial reviews: Aesthetische, Mari Kattman, Cyanotic, Syntec (2016).
Selections from the industrial/EBM/synthpop axis.
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Synthpop: Syntec, Torul (2016), Curxes (2015).
Industrial mellows out to EBM, and synthpop goes the other way.
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Witch house: I’d make myself a majickal sandwich.
Witch House is a made-up genre that became real. It was invented as an in-joke and now goth DJs claim they play “witch house”. Perhaps the secret ingredient is the gr▲†u‡†Øu§ Un‡cØd3.
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Reviews: Massenhysterie (2015), The Big Sun, Dyan (2016).
Shouty electropunk, indie pop and cinematic folk.
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Reviews: Kromak, Arsenio Archer, Mirreya (2016).
Industrial-tangential trance, cinematic pop and vocal synthpop from Russian label SkyQode.
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Reviews: Fredrik Croona, Amelie Prime, London Plane (2016).
Futurepop, impassioned grunge and some new wave power pop. All with good tunes and a beat.
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DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED.
DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED -DRUM MACHINE IS KILLING BLACK METAL- DRUM MACHINE IS NEXT KEYBOARD/CRUTCH AND IS DAGGER IN THE BACK OF BLACK METAL-
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Electronic reviews: Boy Harsher, Syrian, Kuoko, Metroland (2016).
Post-punk synth, futurepop and synthpop.
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Reviews: Vanguard, Dark Narrows, Navvi (2016).
EBM, goth-aspiring new wave and dreampop.
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Synthpop: BOO (Battery Operated Orchestra), Zürich ’81, Deerful (2016).
Three stone winners today. A pleasing selection.
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Industrial singles: Mesh, Liquid Newt (2016).
A couple from the poppier end, on Dependent.
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Industrial reviews: Shiny Darkness, Psychicold, Alexander Fetuekow/2AF (2016).
Depeche Modeish EBM, sp00ky goth EBM, instrumental EBM.
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Industrial reviews: Psy’Aviah, Gamma 10, L.O.T.I.O.N.
Floaty EBM, instrumental EBM, industrial punk.
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Reviews: nTTx, Foot Spa, Kites With Lights, Stars Crusaders, Kepler.
Two industrial, one post-punk, one synthpop, one indiest indie.
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Severed Heads, Boxcar, Single Gun Theory and the Volition Records package tour.
I’ve seen Severed Heads three times. First time was Perth in late ‘91 on the Volition Records “An Intro To Techno” package tour. At this point “techno” still specifically referred to original Detroit techno; the pounding four-on-the-floor stuff the KLF were topping the charts with was various hyphenations of “-house”. Volition almost certainly meant something a bit more like “industrial”, but for some reason people then seemed reluctant to say that word with a straight face.
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Scattered Order are alive and well.
Scattered Order are an Australian noise band who are probably “industrial”, but you never see them in any lists of industrial bands, and that’s just wrong. They have never been popular in any sense. They remain good and important, however, and have persisted. Modulo a decade’s break here and there.
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No: Once We Were Scum, Now We Are God (1989).
This is the finest album by the great Australian band No, featuring Ollie Olsen when he was still angry, before he discovered MDMA and made Third Eye. It’s a live album. I got the record when it came out in 1989 and played it every day for a few months. Invigorating and cheering music that will brighten your soul.
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