Kyrbgrinder - Cold War Technology

Insidiously compelling

Posted Sunday, 21 November 2010 in

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Kyrbgrinder

Kyrbgrinder - Cold War Technology

Rating: 6

Conducting a bizarre touch of musical sleight of hand, the industrial / hardcore onslaught that both the title and the cogs and-pistons heavy graphic design would suggest will be smacking us about the cranium with the force of a nuclear warhead, never actually materialises. Instead we’re treated to an assortment of politico-revolutionary propaganda that sounds, at times, bizarrely like Davey ‘Bonkers‘ Draiman fronting RATM. Weirder still is a glossy, somewhat jaunty take on ‘Heart Shaped Box’ which finds itself a gulf away from the wrought, disabled beauty of the original, yet somehow remains insidiously compelling, much like the rest of the album.

Giles Moorhouse

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