TANKT Strip Off The Gilt (2004)

Before coldwave was a genre tag people slapped on Spotify playlists, Melbourne bands were doing it in rehearsal rooms and self-releasing to anyone who'd listen. TANKT were part of that lineage.

Strip Off The Gilt is a 2004 full-length from one of Australia's more interesting intersections of punk attitude, electronic architecture, and industrial grime. Self-released, self-determined, the kind of record that exists because the people who made it couldn't not make it. If you've been sleeping on the local dark alternative scene's history, this is a good place to start paying attention.

CD. Full-length album. Self-released, Australia, 2004. Genres: coldwave, punk, electronic, industrial.

Fans of: early Severed Heads, SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Wire.