What makes this record so interesting is the way that Factory Floor crunch down vintage, codified sounds and textures and shoot them through liminal time.
Factory Floor is also a lot more fun than you might have imagined, without sacrificing any of what made them so exciting and immersive in the first place.
It's the soundtrack to a disco at the end of the world. It's Factory Floor: unparalleled, uncompromising and pretty much unstoppable.
The sound of Factory Floor is of a band that is now confident in their own original and entirely dominant sound.
Factory Floor’s music is distilled down into three elements. Rhythm. Synths. Vocals. That they make something so evocatively alienated, so compulsively unknowable and so bleakly irresistible from simply this is a sharp, uncompromising, emphatic victory.
This is an album then of irresistible forward momentum; brutal and gentle, alien and human. An album to strap yourself in for and give in to its hypnotising strangeness.
Considering the trio are relative newcomers to dance music, the programming throughout Factory Floor is acutely deft. Elegant, in fact; so much so that the sound can comfortably be described as chic.
Crucially, Factory Floor innovate rather than imitate
Worth the three years it took to materialize, this is a strong, assured debut that shows Factory Floor can build on their influences in a way that feels fresh.
Given the gestation period and polish, the humanity that manages to shine through this tight, crafted record is a triumph; the sound of a band having a whole lot of fun in the hope that ultimately you will do too.
What Factory Floor offers is industrial music for the contemporary audience, not so much constructed as designed; clean and impeccable, with any sharp edges rounded off lest someone accidentally poke their eye out on one.
A joyous ride along the wide fields of electronic music. Factory Floor brings some syncopated synth-lines and electronic drum beats that interplay pretty well on most of the songs. Even though they managed to craft a lively sound here, there is a handful of moments that don't really add up to the experience (like the cosing track, for example), where the group just sounds like a mild version of their own biggest influences, like Aphex Twin and even Moby. They do shine on tracks where their ... read more
1 | Turn It Up 6:15 | |
2 | Here Again 8:09 | |
3 | One 0:48 | |
4 | Fall Back 7:24 | |
5 | Two 1:04 | |
6 | How You Say 6:27 | |
7 | Two Different Ways 8:15 | |
8 | Three 1:43 | |
9 | Work Out 6:35 | |
10 | Breathe In 6:38 |
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