Rolling one cigarette after another from his home in the East Lothian Council of Scotland, Benjamin John Power is invigorated. Known to the music world as Blanck Mass, or that guy from Fuck Buttons, Power turns his device around to his backyard so I can s
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Travel the world as Benjamin John Power mines a decadeâs worth of field recordings on his gratifyingly singular fifth album
Benjamin John Power. Photograph: Harrison Reid
Benjamin John Power. Photograph: Harrison Reid
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In Ferneaux represents something of a departure for electronica auteur Benjamin John Power. After the euphoric and abrasive maximalism of 2019âs
Animated Violence Mild, and his work as half of Fuck Buttons, Powerâs fifth album as Blanck Mass is a more oblique affair. A product of lockdown isolation, it comprises two lengthy soundscapes that blend his trademark layers of coruscating noise with sounds found on his travels over the past decade. Set out of context, these field recordings become for the most part wilfully abstract and very much open to interpretation: was this one recorded in downtown Bamako, that one at a Portuguese woodland rave?
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Published Feb 25, 2021
7 I think your destiny has been very hard and traveling, says a voice halfway through Benjamin John Power s sprawling fifth album as Blanck Mass. It s a fair assessment of both the lives of touring musicians in general and Power s electronic odysseys in particular. Blanck Mass records are intense, energetic affairs, harnessing the most kinetic elements of EBM, industrial and noise to fuel songs that are expansive in structure and propulsive in tempo. Be it the bristling blitzkrieg of 2017 s
World Eater or the climactic trance drops of 2019 s
Animated Violence Mild, Power s music often resembles some monstrous version of a perpetual motion machine.