55CASTLES S/T (2024) Cassette

EBM never really went away, it just went underground and got angrier. 55CASTLES are doing something in that lineage that feels genuinely current, dragging post-punk's cold architecture through a body music framework that owes as much to early Wax Trax! as it does to whatever's rotting in the Brooklyn DIY circuit right now.

It's a format that suits the aesthetic, the hiss and warmth cutting against the clinical pulse of the songwriting. If you've got a drawer full of old Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, or Actors tapes somewhere, make room. This sits comfortably in that company without sounding like a museum piece.

Cassette format. Full length. USA.

Fans of: Nitzer Ebb, Actors, She Wants Revenge