TANKT Club Life: Life According To The 21st Century CD (2005)

A year on from Strip Off The Gilt and TANKT had more to say about how ugly the new century was shaping up to be. Turns out, quite a lot.

Club Life: Life According To The 21st Century is the 2005 follow-up, still self-released, still Australian, still operating in that bruising overlap between coldwave, industrial, electronic, and punk that most major labels wouldn't have known what to do with anyway. The title tells you everything about the register, caustic observation dressed up for a night out and deeply unimpressed by what it finds. This is Australian dark alternative at its most uncompromising and we're glad it exists.

CD. Full-length album. Self-released, Australia, 2005. Genres: coldwave, punk, electronic, industrial.

Fans of: Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, The Birthday Party, early Nick Cave.