Vulpine Smile vs. James Bondage
Category: Experimental / Ambient / Industrial
Album: Angelscrapings
Stars: 1.5
Blurb: Mood and pretense aren’t enough to make this collaboration worth while.

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Collide
Category: Industrial / Electro / Goth
Album: Bent and Broken
Stars: 3.5
Blurb: For the fans and funded by the fans, this two disc offering of remixes and new material presents all the hallmarks of Collide’s lush and atmospheric brand of electro/industrial.

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It-Clings
Category: Experimental / Industrial / Spoken Word
Album: I’m the Biggest Fucking Thing in the Whole Fucking World
Stars: 3.5
Blurb: An exhausting deluge of self-adulating rants and diatribes demonstrating either a fantastic sense of humor or an insufferable ego (or both), set to some of today’s most excellent post-industrial artists.

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The Razor Skyline
Category: Goth / Darkwave
Album: Dark Water Oasis
Stars: 3
Blurb: Infusing Middle Eastern percussion into an otherwise familiar but enjoyable darkwave style, this San Francisco band comes into its own.

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Dukstrab
Category: Electro / Industrial
Album: Influenza
Stars: 2
Blurb: A beat heavy dance floor focused album lacking the character needed for home consumption.

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The Adversary
Category: Electro-pop
Album: Chapter 1: The Ruins
Stars: 3
Blurb: A brief but intriguing introduction to a grander concept, a theatrical post-apocalyptic electro-pop tale.

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Dawn of Ashes
Category: Industrial / Black Metal
Album: Anathema
Stars: 3.5
Blurb: A singularly hideous brew of blackened metal blasphemy and decrepit mechanical ambience, making for an experience at once terrifying and enticing.

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