#industrial

#industrial

The album is described as the legendary avant-garde industrial outfit's "most pop outing" to date, as hinted by the lead single "Allgorhythm," which features Ghanaian singer Wiyaala and a notable co-production credit from pop auteur Richard X. Building from a humorous spoken-word passage from frontman Milan Fras, the song kicks into a club-ready, dance-pop beat that occasionally drops out for more sardonic lines from Fras, such as the chorus refrain: "Slaves to the algorithm."

Alex Ian Smith, the primary force behind the New York-based project Railings, sounds nothing like Cobain, but his voice induces similarly vicarious listening. In " Breaking the Bong," the opening track of Railings' 2017 album, ) (, he darts from guttural highs to velvety lows and then breaks into an effortlessly clear falsetto. It warrants the most preposterous-sounding comparisons: Prince meets David Lee Roth; David Thomas with the lung capacity of Benny "The Voice" Mardones.

CONFLICT DLC was produced by STINT, mixed by Drew Fulk (Knocked Loose) and Lars Stalfors. The follow-up to 2023's RAT WARS furthers HEALTH's "dark, unflinching worldview" and is described as an "album of anger, fear, and catharsis built for the end times" [per a report on Revolver]. That can certainly be gleamed from some of the track titles: "TRASH DECADE," "YOU DIED," "DON'T KILL YOURSELF," "WASTED YEARS," etc.