Arkam Asylum Running with Scissors Wasp Factory
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English glamdustrial freakshow
Arkam Asylum offer up a very entertaining
selection of creepy drug-disco and metal-powered electro-dance tracks here.
Man, I figured Dead or Alive’s glittery 80’s dance-hit “You Spin Me Round”
was wrecked forever by nu-metal dreadlock jocks Dope, but AA have managed to
kidnap it back and slather it in lipstick and slap it around like a
gleefully kinky serial killer here. Their own compositions are more
fractured affairs, full of hard-hitting razor riffs, funky breaks, and
head-spinning samples. It’s kinda like “Twitch” era Ministry, really, deftly
edited and aggro in all the right places. Actually trying to dance to this
might be a nightmare, as great squalls of industro-noise suddenly collapse
into quiet, droning synth passages, and I’m pretty sure it’d drive a
schizophrenic right off the edge- lotsa ‘talking in the grid’ going on just
below the surface, ya know- but it’s a pretty great record, like watching 14
TVs at once, and all of ‘em have something cool on. With, maybe, cars
crashing outside. And wolves howling in the distance. And a serial killer
whispering in your ear. You get the idea.
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English glamdustrial freakshow
Arkam Asylum offer up a very entertaining
selection of creepy drug-disco and metal-powered electro-dance tracks here.
Man, I figured Dead or Alive’s glittery 80’s dance-hit “You Spin Me Round”
was wrecked forever by nu-metal dreadlock jocks Dope, but AA have managed to
kidnap it back and slather it in lipstick and slap it around like a
gleefully kinky serial killer here. Their own compositions are more
fractured affairs, full of hard-hitting razor riffs, funky breaks, and
head-spinning samples. It’s kinda like “Twitch” era Ministry, really, deftly
edited and aggro in all the right places. Actually trying to dance to this
might be a nightmare, as great squalls of industro-noise suddenly collapse
into quiet, droning synth passages, and I’m pretty sure it’d drive a
schizophrenic right off the edge- lotsa ‘talking in the grid’ going on just
below the surface, ya know- but it’s a pretty great record, like watching 14
TVs at once, and all of ‘em have something cool on. With, maybe, cars
crashing outside. And wolves howling in the distance. And a serial killer
whispering in your ear. You get the idea.