Debut full-length from the tech-y aggro-dance duo of Eric Dusik and Phil Fox. Being from Chicago, the town that pretty much invented industrial dance musique, the boys have a lot to live up to here, and lucky for them and/or their laptops, they nail the rich, bubbling, beat-heavy sound of olde* perfectly. The “club tracks” (“Gone Silicone”, “Databass”, “Identify”) are synth-strewn thumpers with incessant candy-narcotic rhythms and Sex Jesus vox that bring to mind latter-day Depeche Mode. Quite obviously, these are the surefire gothchick seduction tracks. As you drift deeper into the album,  songs like “Otherside” and “Every Future’s Past” head straight into dreamworld, floating effortlessly into light, druggy electro-trance. It’s a far cry from the thunderous death disco of the opening tracks (“Confessions”, “Condemnation” – two bastard offspring of Thrill Kill Kult and whoever it was that did bitchin’ Shock Box song**), but chalk this one up to “the Many Moods of PTI”, and it all makes a cyborg-ian kinda sense.

*assuming 1990 is “old” to a few of you out there.