Nuclear Waste , Corp – Nuclear Corporation

Hurtling straight towards the abandoned power station (it’s unclear whether this is a suicidal cleanup operation or a post-fallout urbex jaunt) Nuclear Waste Corp deliver their four latest, most intoxicating fruits in the form of ‘Nuclear Corporation’, their inaugural EP. Clearly, whichever radioactive excesses aren’t used as an efficient source of energy are channelled into pure symptomatic musical joy here. Infusing the best elements of new beat, EBM and synthpop into a cohesive narrative – one that is otherwise difficult to make out, what with all that glowing green goop dripping from the narrator’s mouth – the likes of ‘Bad Habit’ and ‘Infinite Stroke’ resound with the potency of a stick of plutonium yet also the erraticism of a Geiger counter, their acid lines never failing to beguile the ears, let alone cause them to mutate into post-organic pickup mics. B-sider ‘106 Program’ drops an atom bomb on the situation with a cold, cold, nigh shivery broken whorl, while driving dungeon closer ‘Unknown Desire’ soundtracks the inner surfacing of a new, insatiable lust, born of a green-eyed, green-blooded envy.