All posts tagged 'industrial'
To Love Is to Live // Jehnny Beth
The album is purposefully provocative, and whilst this brings exhilarating and hard-hitting moments, it can also result in disorientating frenzies.
There Is No Year // Algiers
Throughout much of its run-time, There is No Year seems content revelling in its own (admittedly awe-inspiring) ambience.
There Existed an Addiction to Blood // clipping.
The album is enthralling in the same way a vampire's glamouring might be: warm, cold, hypnotic, enticing, and foreboding as all Hell.
Pretty Hate Machine // Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails rapidly became renowned for emotive and affecting music. Pretty Hate Machine contains those qualities, albeit in anxious tidbits.
Animated Violence Mild // Blanck Mass
It’s like Blanck Mass put Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Mario, and the blood of a sacrificial lamb into a kind of sonic blender.
Vol. 4 :: Slaves of Fear // HEALTH
HEALTH have continued their trend of making exhilarating music, but something feels off this time round. A record this polished shouldn't feel so flat.
Bad Witch // Nine Inch nails
This is most downright exciting NIN album in quite some time. This is a grubby, disheveled, and damaged album composed, produced, and arranged as such.
Heaven Upside Down // Marilyn Manson
You should come out of a Marilyn Manson record wanting your stomach pumped. The softcore offerings of Heaven Upside Down prompt hand washing at best.
All the Pigs, All Lined Up: Nine Inch Nails’ studio albums ranked
For years now the music of Trent Reznor has proved to be, yes, The Perfect Drug. Here lies my worst-to-best list of Nine Inch Nails studio albums.
World On Fire: the Music of ‘Fallout 3’
From Galaxy News Radio to the old-school homages of Inon Zur's ambient soundtrack, Fallout 3 owes much of its brilliance to its music.
13 songs for a horrible Halloween
Let's face it, Halloween playlists can be awful. Here lies an alternative lineup of frightening songs. More treats than tricks, we promise.
Flume covers considerable ground with ‘Skin’
This new record sees a heavy focus on collaborative production, exploring many sounds while seldom digging deeper into any one of them.
‘Bottomless Pit’ shows Death Grips oddities are still no gimmick
The group have confidently cemented their status. If they stay together they can progress toward any direction they so desire.
The Powers that B // Death Grips
A lot of The Power That B seems like it shouldn't work, and yet it does. It's a huge, crazy wall of sound, and that makes for an exhausting listen.
The Downward Spiral // Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor set a benchmark in the industrial rock genre whilst simultaneously providing a form of therapy for millions of angst-filled listeners.