Front 242 - Geography

Listening to Geography in the 21st century is a surprising experience in ways; one can tell exactly who's making the music, but things were still incredibly different at the start for Front 242. That said, the edge of the band is fully present, but the sheer amped-up level of brute aggression isn't. As a self-consciously modernist electronic body music act, though, Front 242 made a good debut, with a lot of the familiar elements of the group -- De Meyer's disembodied, passionless voice, Codenys and Daniel B's ears for threatening atmospherics -- in place. Read More