Icon of Coil
Machines Are Us (Metropolis)
By DJ Carrion
With Sebastion Komor lending his talents to the future pop supergroup Brudershaft, and Andy Laplegua off doing his solo noise project Combichrist (as well as a ton of remixes), it’s a surprise Icon Of Coil found the time to release the long-awaited follow up to 2002’s The Soul Is in the Software.
You can hear a little bit of Combichrist bleeding into “Pursuit” with its pounding beat, and when the chorus hits, the song is ready to explode. A good song for the dance floor. The final song I could’ve done without, because “Pursuit” leaves you excited, waiting for more, while “Release the Frequency/Afterwords” just tapers off. But that’s pretty much the only complaint I have with this album.
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