Two years after KwaZulu-NaTaL, long-running German industrial provocateurs Genocide Organ return with a new album, Obituary Of The Americas, on Tesco Organisation – co-founded by Genocide Organ’s Klaus Hilger in ’87. The album continues the sound Genocide Organ has developed over thirty years, where industrial music becomes power electronics through fidelity. The muddy production creates a harsher, darker atmosphere than the music would otherwise. Sonically it evokes M.B. more than it does Whitehouse, and continues to highlight the synth skills that made the band relevant to begin with. That being said, Obituary Of The Americas sounds like the melding of the lo-fi industrial noise of Ultra’s Youthful Pleasures and the more recent efforts of power electronics masters Consumer Electronics. One thing that makes the album so fascinating is the way in which it so wholly invokes the atmosphere of 80s industrial/noise/PE – think Broken Flag – while demonstrating three decades worth of sonic growth. Instead of emulating and fetishizing the early aesthetic, and as a result creating music that is both banal and sterile, like so many contemporary bands do, Genocide Organ keeps the core of their sound while refining and growing it. This can also be seen in their political concerns. Repetitively howled PE vocals are still their but the ideas have expanded, political ideas shift away from repetitively yelling polemical aphorisms towards a nearly collaged blends of lyrical fragments and audio samples. The result is a less direct and more critical product. Stream the album at the link below:

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