Description

Still sealed digipak

Surveillance Culture is the sixth studio album from these Swedish elctro punks. It’s their most daring and confident album yet, combining retro-futuristic electronics, crisp danceable beats and assertive vocals that are more upfront than ever before. They simply felt it was time to strip away some layers, to try and create maximum impact from a minimum of audio tracks. This is probably the catchiest and most listenable the band has ever been. Usually the band takes influences from classic UK synth punk, Chicago acid house and Belgian hardcore disco and combines this with some futuristic groove. But on this album its obvious that they have gone back to some of their older influences. Here you can trace stuff from early Human League and Killing Joke to Acid House and New Beat. The Pain Machinery deploy classic hardware such as Sequential Circuits Pro One, Simmons electronic drums, Roland TR-606 as well as dysfunctional budget gear and scrap metal to produce their trademark hard rhythmic machine music.

Track list:
1. Shine
2. Critical State
3. Never
4. Hard Cash
5. Acid Breakdown
6. The Grudge
7. The End Game
8. Grinder
9. Hell
10. Armed
11. Surrender
12. Hate Me Now
13. Playground
14. Moving Walls