LACKTHROW: Release 2xCDr Existence Establishment

LACKTHROW: Release  2xCDr Existence Establishment

There is nothing more ludicrous than the packaging this 2CDr album provides.  Seven inches of tar painted copper plating that provided me with as much entertainment trying to take out the CDr’s as much as it did actually listening to them; if nothing else it made me smile, cut fingers and all.

Andrew Powell’s Lackthrow spews a staggering 54 tracks out over two discs.  With a visceral mash of power electronics and cold Industrial waste, that assaults the senses from every angle.  Much of this has been heard before and that by no means is an insult in a market as saturated as this project lingers within; if anything, Lackthrow holds its own well.

Let’s be honest now; there aren’t that many releases from the genre that can actually be termed ‘good’.  I do raise my hand in admission that PE is one of my guilty pleasures, fully aware that the majority I play now and again is absolute hogwash, requiring little to no talent at all.  There are exceptions to the rule however, with Control and Slogun being a prime example of consummate professionalism, providing PE with a purpose and necessary soapbox, where the sounds on offer are clinically executed to devastating effect.

Lackthrow doesn’t achieve the same heights as his peers.  Then again many artists of this ilk rarely do; what they do provide however, as in the case of Powell, is an essential insight into B division solidarity.

7/10