Even though we are getting closer to Gothtober, it's not like I do not cover the genre the other 11 months of the year; in fact, it seems like even more so the past couple of months. Pumpkin Spice should be hitting the taps any day now, so here is some darker-tinted industrial-influenced EDM to help transition into the season. Their new album, "Octagra,m" finds the German electro groovers dabbling in a dark landscape that is more atmospheric than Skippy Puppy's harsher, stark apocalypse of sound, but fans of Skinny Puppy should find this band easy to embrace. Goth Nite DJs should also pay heed, as these songs are sure to put motion on the dance floor with their seductive lure.
For " New Eden" to be the lead single, it does sprawl out into almost 9 minutes. Long enough for a bathroom break if you uare a DJ spinning this one into your set. The vocals are heavily effected when they surface and fill the cracks in the beats well. The lyrics can be discerned, though the vocals sit back into the synths. They create a droning kind of hook and offer a few different moods, which is more than most singers of this kind of music do, even if they are less scathing and dramatic than ohGr. "Blisters" finds the first industrial beats surfacing as things get darker.
The darker themes continue even as the ambiance increases with "Lesson in Humility.". "Things get back into a more grooving motion with 'Tyrants". "Darkness Visible' takes a beat that feels like old school Depeche Mode and modulates it with layers of sound until it is mutated into their own form. They are back in the Skinny Puppy vibes for "Oathbreaker" with robotic vocals and flowing pulses of electronics. The album closes with "An Unquiet Mind" which paints the album's close with futuristic sounds that serve as a fitting summary more than a climax. I will give this album a 9.5, as it excels at tapping into familiar sounds but making them a new narrative with its own identity, with the perfect balance of atmosphere with dystopian thump.
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