The Soft Pink Truth: Why Do the Heathen Rage? – review
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As one-half of US electronic duo Matmos, Daniel Drew is well-acquainted with artistic bizarreries: their albums include music made from samples of plastic surgery being performed and the neural activity of crayfish.
The Soft Pink Truth is Drew’s solo side-project and it finds him in equally outré form, reinterpreting a series of black metal covers as unhinged electronica.
Pitched between homage and satire, it sets ominous Satanist vocals to pounding industrial noise, a snippet of Rihanna, rogue techno and mad outbursts of drum and bass.
Finnish metallers AN may be surprised to learn how well their track “Let There Be Ebola Frost” works as house music.
The Soft Pink Truth
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
(Thrill Jockey)
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