Description
Audionom - Superior
Stockholm's Audionom are a Krautrock and new-wave influenced group who make their return to Ideal with Superior. After an opening piece ('Audionom') that evokes the primal synthesis of Cluster records, 'Girls & Boys' launches into the album's first all-out rocker, sounding like Joy Division fronted by Einar from The Sugarcubes. Next comes 'Imposter', which jacks the intensity up a stage further, dissolving the production into an abandoned industrial warehouse of cold Scandinavian echo. By now you'll notice that repetition is a key element of the band's sound, not just in terms of their motorik policy on riff construction, but in terms of the lyrics too - the repeated phrasings and mantra-like quality of 'Run Into The Sun' serves the track well however, helping to instil a steely, Suicide-like menace to proceedings. A solid, well-constructed electro-punk album from the always interesting Ideal imprint.
Reviews
Tight, with nerve, with power! Propulsive chuggy neokraut! Buzzing synthy New Wave Rockers! Audionom for president!
********* 9/10 (SONIC)
FINALLY! Stockholm's legendary repetitive neokraut/new wave rockers Audionom is back to fuck back with their first proper album! We have been waiting for it patiently and man it was really worth it!!! This is music that goes straight to your guts and it is all set for a modern classic. This is an album that is very important for the Swedish rock climate. Audionom was surrounded by rumours involving physical fighting, mental instabilities, drug and alcohol abuse and other action from day one but today the band seems quite healthy and focused and has left their anarchist punk roots and is now involving Johan Hinders more personal lyrics, repeated over and over, backed by a fucking bulldozery band! Tight, with nerve, with power! "Superior" is the sound of a band with that rare real feeling to it. This is for real.
Tracklisting
Download Album (IDEAL066DD)
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Audionom
- Audionom
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Audionom
- Girls & Boys
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- Impostor
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- Run Into Sun
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- Inside
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- Hypnopompa Superior
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- Show Me Your Hands
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- So Weak
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- Neon
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- Dead Can Dance
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- Kursk