ToRights

ToRights is the latest non-commercial offering from this UK-based breakbeat-industrial group.

After the success of End of an Error, the band dive back into their more synthetic / electronic / studio roots. Pounding dance-floor tracks vary the disc and offset the characteristic, guitar-heavy 'stadium industrial' material of live gigs / commercial CDs.

The diversity in ToRights, from steady and seething numbers, through DeathBoy's trademark 'TekPunk', where drum and bass meets articulate, nakedly honest vocals, to technology-laden trip-hop, represents a grand return to form - the non-commercial nature of the album allowing the band to offer something that sits as readily on an iPod as a turntable.

Featuring lyrics from long-time collaborator and word-smith Matthew Phillips and created in a space between 'official' projects, the tracks on ToRights provide a dark and insistent document of the modern condition, tracks to pound the street to, to make your head nod as you grimace on public transport.

Despite, or in concert with the vodka-fuelled anguish of Scott's vocals, the rich programming and dancefloor sensibilities make for a CD with huge repeat value, hook-laden loops underpinned with loving incidental production and candid bursts of emotion. Each song begs and rewards the replay.

The album has been released like the much-acclaimed "Forwards", with the approval of DeathBoy's label Line Out Records as a non-commercial offering, as part of the band's long-standing policy of "Getting the fucking music out there".