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100
As last year’s attention-grabbing Adhesive EP intimated, the new Container is a richly rhythmic powerhouse of gleeful propulsion. The beats trump everything, including the tones that are so overdriven they might as well be more beats.
10y
80
All of Container's recordings are amazing, but this one is his most concentrated burst of energy yet, and it cements his status as one of the most exciting and inventive artists in the underground American electronic music scene, as well as one of the most successful in merging noise with techno.
10y
80
LP might be Ren Schofield's shortest album as Container, but it's also the one that best captures the full elemental force of his music.
11y
80
On LP, Container shows his ability to create a complete barnburner of an album in the least flashy and showy manner possible.
11y
75
There’s not much difference between this new album and his previous two full-length efforts, which perhaps explains why he gave them all the same generic title of LP (all the songs on each have one-word titles, too). Still, dig in closely and subtle modifications and peripheral developments emerge.
10y
This dude´s unrelenting and mean approach to techno really satisfies the reptilian part of my brain.
An explosive and uncontained tour-de-force of an album, mostly acomplished as a powerhouse collection of industrial-techno songs than as an album in fact, but noticeably good enough to compose one.
That would’ve been more awesome if it wasn’t 26 minutes. Container’s 3rd LP is a very good Industrial Techno album with some blends of Power Noise. Some of these tracks were surprisingly noisy but they do work pretty well it kinda reminded me of Emptyset even though I haven’t heard much from that project they make similar shit I guess. It’s a banging album that’s for sure though when a track hits hard it smacks you right in the damn face. Punchy Industrial ... read more
