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  Manufacturing Consent EP by Stroszek


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Artist: Stroszek
Title: Manufacturing Consent EP
Catalogue Number: Fire Exit Records
Review Format: CD
Release Year: 2008



You wake up. You have your Rice Krispies. Then you have a listen to some songs by Stroszek. Actually you don't as this isn't the kind of music that goes well with breakfast.

I'd try to describe the songs but they aren't those kinds of songs. I suppose they are best described as drum machine beats for a dystopian world. Indie rock style guitars populate the sound field as well, providing texture to the layered synth sounds and distant, angst ridden vocals. Now that I think about it, "Burning Libraries" sounds like Soft Cell without the campness and there's even a bit of John Foxx about in "Dancing on the Motorway" but you're probably getting the picture by now. Like so many before them, Stroszek have headed up that post punk electronic route.

It's a well trodden path that Stroszek follow. They do what they do well - I'll give them that - and I would probably be more generous if I hadn't heard this stuff done 20 years ago. Worth a listen anyway.


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Review Date: November 27 2008