DEATH OF ART ST (2011) CD

Self-titled debuts are a statement of intent, and Death Of Art's 2011 record is an Australian electronic rock artifact that landed without much fanfare and promptly became one of those discs that the right people kept very quietly to themselves.

Electronic rock sits in an awkward no-man's-land between industrial texture and melodic song structure, and the Australian scene has always done its own thing with it regardless of what was happening overseas. This one belongs in that conversation alongside the stranger corners of the dark alternative spectrum, the kind of record that turns up in a Frankston sharehouse next to a Skinny Puppy bootleg and a broken synth.

Format: CD. Self-titled full length. Origin: Australia. Label: ALT CVLT.