Roberto Filippozzi from Italy’s DARKROOM Magazine reviews The Ignorance Cartel
– DARKROOM MAGAZINE
A year after the previous “Bang Operative“, Karl Learmont’s Angelspit – born in Australia but based in California – return with the last effort over the long distance of a discography now decidedly nourished. Very active with crowd funding such as Patreon and Kickstarter, the team led by mastermind Learmont – and also completed this time by a large list of guests – continues in its well-known electro-cyber-punk discourse that sagaciously mixes snappy rhythms, sharp guitars and abrasive synths in a modern context in its urban neuroses, which draw from breakbeat as well as from the most contaminated and transversal EBM to unlined that adrenaline charge that can always guarantee great intensity. The new effort, the second part of the HEXE trilogy enclosed in a beautiful six-panel digipack, it is characterized by a particularly direct and impactful songwriting that clarifies its intentions from the beginning and crackling “Eat the Children“, and that increases the dose with massive groove injections (“Love To Watch”, “Don’t Say“, the most usable “Hot Machine” and the solid “Live Fast Or Die”) that alternate well with the sharper junctures (“Little Bastards“, “Stick To The Plan”). There is no lack of both the necessary brazenness and a certain eclecticism (“Happy Little Coma”), as well as a healthy sonic fury (the nervous “Ammosexual” and the swirling “Someone Else”), and if even the instrumental moments turn out to be convincing (the good atmospheres of “Spade” and the robustness of “Comply Or Die”), are no less those more reasoned passages useful to catch your breath (the slow and creeping “Easy” and the final “All Puppet No Master“).
A solid work that, in its hour of duration, confirms everything good we know about Angelspit through a well-assorted lineup, and that will undoubtedly not fail to cheer both fans of the project and those electronauti more accustomed to contamination and modernism in a cyberpunk key.
Roberto Filippozzi
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