White Shadow
Category: Industrial Rock
Album: Zugzwang
Stars: 2.5
Blurb: White Shadow unveils a new direction in this single, but proves great ingredients don’t always make a great dish.

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Cryogenic Echelon
Category: Dubstep / Electro
Album: Antipode
Stars: 3.5
Blurb: From a primordial soup of electronic concepts emerges an album in equal parts straightforward and defying categorization.

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X Marks the Pedwalk
Category: EBM
Album: The Sun, the Cold, and My Underwater Fear
Stars: 3
Blurb: The influential German band returns with a mix of up-tempo commercial numbers and ambient musical excursions.

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Aesthetische
Category: EBM
Album: Powerswitch
Stars: 3.5
Blurb: After a long absence, the Brazilian duo of Fabricio Viscardi and Guilherme Pires is back with a new name and familiar EBM sounds, creating a melting pot of contemporary and modern electronic production.

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Scarlet Soho
Category: Electro-pop
Album: When the Lights Go Out EP
Stars: 2.5
Blurb: Competent but lacking in surprises, this EP will make fans of cheerful tunes happy without winning over anyone who isn’t susceptible to pop and its retro electro aberrations.

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Ignatius
Category: Ambient / Experimental
Album: Alexithymia EP
Stars: 2.5
Blurb: Ignatius’ Alexithymia EP sounds as if HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey produced it.

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Mass Hypnotized
Category: Digital Hardcore / Noise / Dark Ambient
Album: Abolish Your Own Illusion EP
Stars: 2.5
Blurb: Intriguing tribal and ritualistic moods drown in an all but too familiar mixture of distortion and noise.

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