playlist artwork#12 this weekToRights

by DeathBoy

Tracks

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About this album

  • Updated: 29/10/2008

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".
 

 

The tracks of this album are published under a Creative Commons licence, check the licence associated to each track.

Reviews for "ToRights"

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S-o-u-l-m-a-t-e

Gutes Album

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S-o-u-l-m-a-t-e • 2009-07-08 21:58:39

Eigentlich bin ich mit allem was sich Industrial nennt mehr als vorsichtig, weil es nicht so ganz meine Musik ist, aber das hier.... ist einfach klasse! Professionell, toller Rhythmus mit stimmigen Vocals. Eine klare Empfehlung selbst für Skeptiker. ;)) THX for sharing
Chewtoy

Truly beautiful

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Chewtoy • 2009-06-08 01:06:23

Indeed a struck of genius in this album, with my personal favorite "Oldskool Revolution". It hase nice vibes, nice tempo and a kind of the special spark you don't see in much music, but this, this has that little something extra.
stellarartwars

Superb production

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stellarartwars • 2009-04-23 14:11:15

This is along the lines of Calvin Harris - (and to some extent Daniel Beddingfield), who's at no.1 at the moment in the UK. The vibe is more chilled though, with a lot of references to the "baggy" scene of the early 90s, Happy Mondays, Black Grape, Soup Dragons etc. Fine Day To Be A Humanoid takes me back to around 2001 - Union Jack label garage stuff with a strong hint of drum & bass. The production is superb all round being clear, well balanced without being grinding or toppy. My only real criticism - which is also very true of Mr Harris himself, is that I think there's a missed opportunity here to explore some jazzier chord progressions and melodies, everything sounds pretty much like Em / Am or something. Certainly not unsual for this genre as it is but I do think that there's potential for that touch of genius to give it a unique selling point
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