Punk/electro/techno-noise trio Consumer Electronics return with an album of all-new studio material, following on from last year’s acclaimed “Estuary English” LP and this year’s “Repetition Reinforcement” 12″ on Diagonal.
Housed in a sleeve featuring stunning cover artwork by Tokyo-based artist Trevor Brown, “Dollhouse Songs” further chronicles frontman Philip Best’s trawl through the seedy thoroughfares of crumbling Tory Britain.
“Learn Your Fucking Place” sneers Best in trademark-style, aping the austerity mongers of Britain’s current right wing junta. Ably assisted on dark cracked electronics by Sarah Froelich and stunningly produced by noise/beat guru Russell Haswell, this latest instalment in CE’s state-of-the-nation polemics is sure to be keenly anticipated.
Featuring seven new studio tracks, ‘History Of Sleepwalking’, ‘Knives Cut’, ‘Condition Of A Hole’, ‘Nothing Natural’, ‘The Push’, ‘Colour Climax’ and ‘Murder Your Masters’ (the last track previously surfacing briefly as an ultra-rare gig only 7″), CE now features a twin vocal attack from the Best/Froelich husband-and-wife team, a furious tide of words spat out over a chaotic spew of mangled beats, bracing synths and state-of-the-art noise generation.
This is their most personal and political album yet.
Nice 180gsm vinyl too.
