Battery Cage - A Young Person's Guide to Heartbreak

Emerging from the depths of the studio after three years, Battery Cage return with another round of doom and gloom industrial dance on their third release, A Young Person's Guide To Heartbreak. Similar to their second record, Guide To Heartbreak is a skillful onslaught of mechanical dance beats, metallic synthesizers, grinding guitar licks, and gritty vocals, and like the previous album it's all good and cathartic. But where the majority of 2003's World Wide Wasteland was unabashedly (and intelligently) tailored for the club crowd, Guide To Heartbreak explores darker territory with spacey ambient tracks like "We Need to Talk" and "Shot 23/24." Although there's something to be said for a minute and fifty seconds worth of lamenting females set against a somber choral arrangement, Battery Cage are generally in their element when they stick to straightforward industrial dance material. Read More