Leave it to electronica acts Blanck Mass and Mouse on Mars to offer speculative works on artificial intelligence, cyborgs and the future of humanity. Benjamin John Power, half of dance duo Fuck Buttons, records solo as Blanck Mass. His fifth release,
In Ferneaux (Sacred Bones), consists of two 20-minute pieces, âPhase Iâ and âPhase II,â that float from the type of naturalist found sounds favored by jazz artist Jeph Jerman, to wild electronic swooshes, to an apocalypse rant from a drunk San Francisco street prophet. But where his
Animated Violence Mild was a tirade on the police state, this is a sad bemused instrumental sermon addressing life after pandemic.
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark (Album Review)
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Album of the week: As Days Get Dark — Triple R 102 7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
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Album Of The Week: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark 13 March, 2021
Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days comes from Arab Strap after the recent release of the duo’s As Days Get Dark record – here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify.
“If opening up your records with some good old fashioned swears is what you’re after, then Arab Strap have form, 1998’s Philophobia beginning with the immortal line, ‘It was the biggest cock you’d ever seen’.”
“But there’s something oddly plangent about the kick-off to The Turning Of Our Bones – the Scottish duo’s first side 1, track 1 in sixteen years – one which jumps in headfirst with singer Aidan Moffat confessing, ‘I don’t give a fuck about the past’.”