Neonicle – Kagome EP

We imagine «Neonicle» – judging by the affixes of the name alone – would likely mean something like «new instance of a half-biological, half-mechanical monstrosity, capable of lamellic self-regeneration when mortally wounded». Think of Terminator, grey goo or The Thing. Whatever idea the producer behind this alias had in mind when coming up with the name, you cannot deny that this nominal vagary still conjures up a certain set of (grisly, technological) images when paired with such solemn, fatal electro sounds. Machinic desecrations and vocal litanies abound on A-siders ‘Kagome’ featuring Julia Marks and ‘Dirty Sanchez’, both of which portray a tarred, oiled and feathered sound, as of an unstoppable automaton setting about a new reformative mission. Then ‘Train’ and ‘New Culture’ go on to utterly usurp and displace the old narrative, with the hip cyber electro of the latter – modifying the laryngeal emissions of vocalist Dyroplane – extending this robotic coup d’etat to lay down a new, sinister futural law.