Songs Of Love And Decay
The UK’s industrial and techno strongarm Oliver Ho harnesses horsepower muscularity to Broken English Club’s meat motoring Dekmantel debut.
‘Songs of Love and Decay’ is a strapping example of the way Ho’s leading project has increasingly converged styles to powerful effect over the past decade, both under this alias, as Slow White Fall, and part of Zov Zov, among others. In particular his BEC gear shares a shark-eyed thrust and bloodlust with fellow Downwards crew Regis and Silent Servant, and this new album is among he clearest testaments to his shared strength in reinforcing, mutating techno by galvanising it with classic industrial muscle and gristle.
At 14 tracks wide and 66 minutes deep 'Songs of Love and Decay’ is surely Ho’s most convincing and powerful opus as Broken English Club. The bout of cinematic, beat-‘em-up sound design in ‘A Shallow Lake’ and eldritch arps of ‘England Heretic’ entwine twisted girders of big room brutality in ‘Crawling’ and its climactic title tune, next to a bone-rattling, Brummie-tanged ‘Death Cult’ and lead the way to dramatic highlights in the stop-start attack of ‘Pacific Island Kill’ and rotor-jawed stay of ‘Lost Gods’.
EBM hard-heads gets theirs in the wounding 16th note bite of ‘Prisoner’, whilst ‘sacred Sacrifice’ sutures with relative calm, and the town shifts to more psychoactive discord on the closing passage of ‘Non Place’ into hellish fanfare on ‘The Occult Body’, all signalling one of Dekmantel’s finest long players in effect.
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Estimated Release Date: 21 March 2025
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The UK’s industrial and techno strongarm Oliver Ho harnesses horsepower muscularity to Broken English Club’s meat motoring Dekmantel debut.
‘Songs of Love and Decay’ is a strapping example of the way Ho’s leading project has increasingly converged styles to powerful effect over the past decade, both under this alias, as Slow White Fall, and part of Zov Zov, among others. In particular his BEC gear shares a shark-eyed thrust and bloodlust with fellow Downwards crew Regis and Silent Servant, and this new album is among he clearest testaments to his shared strength in reinforcing, mutating techno by galvanising it with classic industrial muscle and gristle.
At 14 tracks wide and 66 minutes deep 'Songs of Love and Decay’ is surely Ho’s most convincing and powerful opus as Broken English Club. The bout of cinematic, beat-‘em-up sound design in ‘A Shallow Lake’ and eldritch arps of ‘England Heretic’ entwine twisted girders of big room brutality in ‘Crawling’ and its climactic title tune, next to a bone-rattling, Brummie-tanged ‘Death Cult’ and lead the way to dramatic highlights in the stop-start attack of ‘Pacific Island Kill’ and rotor-jawed stay of ‘Lost Gods’.
EBM hard-heads gets theirs in the wounding 16th note bite of ‘Prisoner’, whilst ‘sacred Sacrifice’ sutures with relative calm, and the town shifts to more psychoactive discord on the closing passage of ‘Non Place’ into hellish fanfare on ‘The Occult Body’, all signalling one of Dekmantel’s finest long players in effect.