By: Chris Bull
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 04/03/2016
Label: Throatruiner |
Lost
Pilgrims Records
The new album 'Asexual Anger' from French heavyweights Love Sex
Machine is like a KGB torture programme. Each strum of the strings, each hit of
the drums, each vocal has been meticulously thought out and methodically
delivered to inflict maximum impact each time. Whatever information it is you
have, you'd better confess! This follow
up to 2014's self titled debut, is a stark reminder that LSM are equipped with
all the right tools to punish; your eardrums will be very pleased indeed.
“Asexual Anger” CD//DD//LP track listing:
1).
Asexual Anger
2).
Drone Syndrome
3).
Black Mountain
4).
Aujeszky
5).
Devolution
6).
Atrocity
7).
Infernal Spiral
8).
Silent Duck
The Review
The new album 'Asexual Anger' from French heavyweights Love Sex Machine
is like a KGB torture programme. Each strum of the strings, each hit of the
drums, each vocal has been meticulously thought out and methodically delivered
to inflict maximum impact each time. Whatever information it is you have, you'd
better confess!
From the slow and painful bamboo under the
fingernails of the opening title track, it's clear that this band is not
messing about. The sound is bass heavy and you can hear and feel each string
being hammered. The slightly disjointed 'Drone
Syndrome' and the slower, suffocating 'Black
Mountain' follow up the barrage of torture. The brilliant 'Aujezsky' adds elements of post
hardcore to the mix and reminds me a little of Hogslayer's
2015 effort in its riffing and solid drumming. By the end of the track you'll
be feeling like a political dissident, starved of food and sunlight. 'Devolution' is where things get
serious. Your captors are getting serious. The tools are out and you're about
to experience some real pain.
'Atrocity' stabs and kicks with real menace and purpose, you'll be
beginning to feel as though death may be your salvation...but your captors will
not let you off that easy! Then final tracks 'Infernal Spiral' and 'Silent
Duck' draw things to a crushing conclusion; the former, a final
violent burst of reckless abandon and the latter the end result; you're no use
to society now. You're off to spend your final days medicated to the eyeballs
in one of the state's best asylums. You may have information on the government,
but no one will believe you now.
“Asexual
Anger”
is available here
