German post punks TV CULT describe their music as “somewhere between The Cure and Minor.” Their debut album, 2023’s ‘Colony’, lent hard on their punk influences and led to the band touring with acts such as Ditz and Militarie Gun. ‘Industry’, the sophomore follow-up, sees the band embrace their own label of brutal post punk, creating sonic spaces that are dark, industrial, and psychedelic in equal measure. It’s an album that is actively and reflexively political, a reaction to and rumination on the world in which we have all unwittingly found ourselves.
Lead single ‘Communion’ opens the album as a manifesto. The Cure’s influence is immediately obvious in Martin Hughes’s guitars, and is apt given the theme of the song, and of the album more widely. Just as The Cure used the darker space of post punk to explore Robert Smith’s fragmenting relation to religion in 1981’s ‘Faith’, TV CULT are exploring that same fragmentation here, now in the context of the rise of the far right and the…
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