Review: Cocksure – Corporate Sting

Review: Cocksure – Corporate Sting
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Cocksure = Revolting Cocks + Acumen Nation + Iszoloscope … read more

Review: Aesthetic Perfection – Imperfect

Review: Aesthetic Perfection – Imperfect
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Aesthetic Perfection Imperfect Metropolis Street: 05.12 Aesthetic Perfection = Vince Guaraldi + Necessary Response – Electricity Although I am not a fan of hearing live music on a produced album, this release is amazing. Daniel Graves’ voice and talent truly shine on this piano bar release. It is amazing to hear the electronic sounds of

Review: Dismantled – Breed to Death

Review: Dismantled – Breed to Death
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Dismantled Breed to Death Metropolis Street: 04.25 As soon as I saw there was a cover of Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up,” I couldn’t wait to listen to Breed to Death, the preview to Dismantled’s third album, Standard Issue. I was never a fan of Dismantled (the whole trying-to-sound-like-Frontline Assembly thing turned me off), so I

Review: Rotersand – Welcome to Goodbye

Review: Rotersand – Welcome to Goodbye
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Rotersand Welcome to Goodbye Metropolis Street: 06.27 The 90s industrial act The Fair Sex decided to update their sound and the name of their act to fit the new direction of harsh electronic music—creating their new shape in the form of Rotersand. With Welcome to Goodbye as their sophomore release, the act is growing as

Review: :wumpscut: – Evoke

Review: :wumpscut: – Evoke
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:wumpscut: Evoke Metropolis Street: 04.12   Because my expectations were pretty low due to the preview, the Blondi single, I’ll admit that I’m not disappointed with this release. The album starts off with a crackwhore waltz featuring the wretched female vocals that are like fingernails on a chalkboard on “Maiden.” Vocoder distortion helps her at

Review: VNV Nation – Matter+Form

Review: VNV Nation – Matter+Form
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VNV Nation Matter+Form Metropolis Street: 04.12   VNV Nation fans have waited two years for Matter + Form and will delight in the latest efforts of Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson. Eleven tracks of Epic songs that are part of the future-pop founder’s repertoire reinvent the genre that blurs gothic, industrial and techno sounds. “Intro”

Review: Lights of Euphoria – Gegen Den Strom

Review: Lights of Euphoria – Gegen Den Strom
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Lights of Euphoria Gegen Den Strom Metropolis It’s common nowadays that if your album isn’t good enough to stand alone, you should add some remixes from artists that people like. Lights of Euphoria were smart enough to do that for the limited-edition North American release of Gegen Den Strom (Against the River). The 12 tracks

Review: Combichrist – Everybody Hates You

Review: Combichrist – Everybody Hates You
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Combichrist Everybody Hates You Metropolis   In the last year, Combichrist has released some of the best music to cross my desk in a long time. It’s lighthearted, evil, sexy, danceable and delicious. Fifteen years ago, I felt the same way about Nitzer Ebb; it got in the veins and you were hooked. “This s*it