Prodigy rock! I mean, they really rock! When they were x-ed out ravers, they rocked! And then some English pansy wrote a book about them, and they rocked!
In abandoning the Swans moniker, Gira approaches his style in a fresh way, repetition not morphing into tedium, his attitude brighter (Well, not as depressed.)
Snippets of blazing metal, washes of delayed patterns, relaxed lines matched with stuttering drums, and vice versa. An extremely well-thought-out album.
Mix (old school) Slayer with (very old school) Ministry & play it through a crappy stereo system, so everything (drums, vocals, sequences) is distorted.
What they did 20 years ago doesn’t translate on new machines. They need new approaches & techniques to achieve the violent emotional explosions they used to.
The music’s not interesting enough without the visuals, the visuals aren’t interesting enough without the music, and the combination isn’t interesting enough to watch more than once.