re: Guilty Connector's Beats, Noise & Life I'd feel as guilty listening to a noise album on Planet Mu as I do listening to footwork on the same, except that it's got 4.5 and 5 star ratings from my main two noise bros - but listening to n00b noise I have a very noise n00b complaint about it: shit sounds like vacuums. No, I'm not saying that all noise sounds like vacuums or that's it not music or takes no skills, none of that: it's just that the actual noise on this particular album happens to sound disconcertingly like the noises I would make as a child by placing my hand over the sucking end of the hose from my mother's vacuum - that's a noise I loved then, but annoys the heck out of me in this context. And, obviously, there's more to the album than that sound, but there's enough that it pretty much ruins it for me.

Controlled Bleeding's Knees and Bones, however, doesn't sound like a vacuum! It sounds damn good, though. It covers the exact correct territory that I want my industrial and related artists to cover: it's surrealist, rather than about... rape and racism, as much influenced by "Poeme Electronique" as "Slogun" or whatevs. And fucking hell it's amazing. Those nonsensical vocal samples are the perfect element to contrast the screeching and there's even a coupla' pretty bits! It's pretty much the most perfectly balanced album of this sort I've ever heard. It might be 4.5 stars, but that seems a little obvious? I hear Trailer Fuck might be even better, and though that's the only other album of theirs I have in my ~possession~ most of their other stuff is on Spotify, so I'm treating myself!