With their fourth full-length album Signal Fire, Genghis Tron awaken us from the post- apocalyptic daydreams of their previous work with a violent—and most welcome—shove.
This time, the distant-future reveries we first heard on 'Board Up The House' give way to an unsettling awareness of the present we’re actually living, as our circumstances grow too pressing to try and escape.
“'Signal Fire' envisions a Kojima-esque dystopia of endless proxy warfare,” says vocalist and lyricist Tony Wolski (The Armed), “where the deluge of available information has outmoded the human ability to parse it. A world where those amoral, shameless and cunning enough can literally reshape reality at their whim through sheer insistence."
Having roared onto the scene in 2004 with a uniquely demented blend of extreme metal, synthesizer textures, and drum-machine madness, Genghis Tron are no strangers to making a forceful impression. But Signal Fire marks the first time bandleaders Michael Sochynsky and Hamilton Jordan –joined again by Wolski and Nick Yacyshyn (SUMAC) on drums, plus newcomer Kenny Szymanski (The Armed) on bass–has captured this level of urgency with such visceral precision. “This album is very much rooted in the now,” confirms Jordan.
Twenty years into their career, having proven their ability to forge common ground between Ministry and Aphex Twin, between Brutal Truth and Boards Of Canada, between Cluster and Converge, ugly-beautiful new genre hybrids from Genghis Tron no longer come as a surprise. What’s remarkable, however, is how Sochynsky and Jordan have taken a project that started in 2004 as a dorm-room genre-pastiche experiment —”a chaotic, wild amalgamation of all our favorite stuff, literally slammed together,” says Jordan—and refined their songwriting craft to deliver a sound that is unmistakably their own.
CD version.
Tracklisting:
1. I Am All
2. Signal Fire
3. Future Worship
4. Like Fotochrom
5. Tomorrow Mirage
6. Nothing Blooms in the Hollow
7. Without Form
8. Born Prey
9. A Love So Pure
10. New Gods
