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"Attak" KMFDM |
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Few in the area of Electronic/Industrial music have mastered the technique as well as KMFDM. True innovators nearly two decades in, to a scene that's grown in relevance, this "band," brain trust of indie vet Sascha Konietzko along with the likes of Ministry's Jourgensen and baton grabbers Pitchshifter remain as vital to underground music as any we've seen during their time. "Attak," their full length follow up to a previously released single that featured a spastic cover of the ol' Nancy Sinatra "These Boots" tune, which only seems to sound better once it's gotten a state of the art butcher job-"Attak's" a sight and sound to behold in a quick, urgent, and ironically titled return to form and function. Their premature disbanding a couple years prior was shortsighted to say the least. "Attak/Reload"
get the fire ignited in true "MF" fashion, their aggrandized
drilling and signature beats in full old school compliance to the desired
effect-tear the speaker cones The wires get crossed often enough to serve their regenerated ambitions as not doing another so on and so forth retread-yet even if this was the case it's theirs to do in the first place and few are better. Moving forward using aggression as a motivator, temperamental ambition runs rampant with technical benevolence meeting and exceeding expectations in a broad range of creative facets-"Skurk" opens the wound with an intrusive immediacy, while "Dirty" features war-like riffing over a riveting percussion; "Save Me" buzzes with a menacing guitar groove then artfully crosses into a synthesized harmonic ballad and features industry vet Tim Skold, who's overall contributions here run far and wide. KMFDM, resilient and resurgent, push the buttons of progress quicker than any in their field-"Attak's" electro-magnetic energy and industrialized intersections remain firm, their variance lying in a broader dance dynamic and dub feature and shifty m/f vocalization. War chants merge violently with
heavy echo and sledgehammer stimuli on this artfully Released by Metropolis Records Metropolis Records PO Box 54307
Philadelphia PA 19105 Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] P.O. Box 20252 |