“…Coming at the listener with a rumbling power, THA contains a deep humming ascending from a wrathful earth…”
[Listen | Purchase] I must admit that the new album took me a bit by surprise with its sheer organic industrial rock. Upon adjustment and several listens, I have come to love Android Lust’s fourth proper album since 1997 entitled The Human Animal (released on their Synthellec Music imprint). Coming at the listener with a rumbling power, THA contains a deep humming ascending from a wrathful earth.
The first few tracks, “Intimate Stranger,” “Rub Me Raw” and “Saint Over” open up the album in this black fist of determination and unveils a serious industrial grove of sound. One might say upon a few listens that Shikee, the driving force behind Android Lust, has really touched a wild undergrowth with this disc (just listen to the track “It’s On You,” brimming with a freshness and power in the same instant). Continuing to the second half of the disc, we find the track “A New Haven” sounding like you were in a haunted speakeasy in an undefined time or place; this and others on the record, like “Into The Sun,” almost sound like musical gift’s from the future. One of the definitive highlights on THA, “One World,” delivers a permeating brooding that the band is known for; a simple yet complex guitar work that elevates the song and captures the listeners ear as it comes to an emotional close.
THA contains a dark forest cabaret feel to it, perhaps a personal comment from a twisted ear, and offers excelling atmospheric industrial pathways all the way through. File under: Rumbling Dark Power.
The Human Animal is out now on Synthellec Music. [Listen | Purchase]
