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Be My Enemy: All That I Love, I Destroy (2020)

All That I Love, I Destroy has been on my mind as one of the most exciting records out this year. I found this not realizing it was Phil Barry’s (Cubanate) solo project, and that in turn solidified my fanfare for it. You’re guaranteed that most of this dangerous concoction of ten tracks adheres to the old school of Nineties’ industrial rock, techno, and aggrotech, all polished for the right now and hard as nails on its’ speediest parts like “Caesar Antichrist” and “Wardance” (not a Killing Joke cover). There’s more aggressive whip-frenzy to be subjected to in “Cheating, Lying, Stealing” and the lunatic finale “Destroyer” where no one could ask for a better way to close the album. Even have a mid-tempo crisis in “Bad Blood” as deviant synths dance around while Barry taunts and sneers at you (”hey little pig / you’re just a study in nature”). Add his other project with Marc Heal, Cubanate’s Kolossus (2019), and you’ll have an equivalent that proves that neither of them can do no wrong.

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Pig and Cubante

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Cubanate: Kolossus (2019)

Cubanate has done more than enough for me to support them 100%. To me, they’re the impeccable mix of industrial, techno, and guitar loops. (On 1998′s Interference, they flipped it over for drum-and-bass.) I started out with the states’ pressing of Antimatter (1993) and “Oxyacetylene” and always needed more. Now we’re at a time where we appreciate our industrial favorites more than ever because they helped give us an identity and their sounds mattered when we needed them. Marc Heal once declared not having it in him to make new Cubanate. Good thing he called himself wrong. He started releasing new material in 2015 as MC Lord Of The Flies with Pig and the following year solo before ending hibernation with Kolossus. Phil Barry is also back for the ride and Cubanate sounds like it’s never lost their original mission.

The output is much sharper and more steadily paced while staying true to their formula of EBM, gristled techno rhythms, and guitar loops. Full-pressure overloads from the first three records are turned down and the adrenaline gets pumped more efficiently. The title track “Kolossus” answers exactly where Cubanate is all along and never keeps its’ eyes off its’ target, with “Split Second” and the slightly faster “Missing Persons” constantly jab and prod with thick electronic beats and synth-lines while Barry’s guitars shovel through the surface. The winner here is “Vortex”, reverting back to classic Cubanate’s full-on industrial techno craziness and one I’ve been circling endlessly. Kolossus also acts as its’ own single featuring two remixes of the title track from Drownd and the legendary Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly who gives it a more sinister, stormy treatment.

Too bad you won’t find any signature WTFAY references or that specific Heal fanfare (think of his remix’ kickoff of Cyber-Tec Project’s “Let Your Body Die”), but you will certainly find Cubanate exactly where you need them. You’ll be thrilled that you did.

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Mr Fogg

Les comparto las canciones tan lindas que hace Phil Barry, este músico alternativo y cantante británico de Berkshire, que se hace llamar Mr Fogg (nombre tomado de Phileas Fogg, el personaje de Julio Verne en su novela "La vuelta al mundo en 80 días") y que como dato curioso llegó a la música por ser nieto de una cantante de ópera y bisnieto de dos artistas de music hall del siglo XIX, entre otras cosas. Si se preguntan qué tipo de música hace, una búsqueda rápida por Google les podría decir que comenzó haciendo una especie de indie y synth-pop, moviéndose después entre la electrónica, el electro-dance el electro-pop y finalmente al chamber-pop en álbumes más recientes (incorporando instrumentos acústicos). Ahora que si me preguntan mi opinión personal, les podría decir que para mí este artista es una mezcla muy afortunada de influencias, que suena como si tomarás los falsetos de Sigur Rós, las melodías melancólicas de GranDaddy, las cajas de ritmos experimentales de Radiohead y los reefs minimalistas electro-rockeros de M83, los metieras en una licuadora, aderezas esto con algunas colaboraciones significativas y remixes con nombres como Bjork o John Digweed... y el resultado de todo eso es Mr Fogg. Este músico no es precisamente nuevo, ya va como para 20 añitos haciendo cosas (su primer sencillo es de 2006). Pero si quieren que les recomiende algunas canciones para empezar a conocerlo les dejo la del video de este posteo (Time to ascend, 2015), así como otras 5 o 6 que yo ya tengo y muy faveadas en mi Spotify: 1. Time to ascend (Youth, 2015) 2. Close to the surface (Speech in colour, 2025) 3. A little letting go (sencillo, 2019) 4. Living underwater (In paradise, 2022) 5. No house for these thoughts (Youth, 2015) 6. Some things matter (Speech in colour, 2025) 7. Sprint (Eleven, 2012) 8. Stung (sencillo, 2010) Me dicen lo que quieran si no les gusta...

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