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Factory Floor '25 25' (DFA)
The eponymous 2013 debut album from London trio Factory Floor proclaimed them as post-punk analogue experimentalists, with as many fans in the avant-garde indie scene as clubland. Now a duo, their second is starker and more minimal, full of machine threat and techno edge. Its eight tracks offer no tunes, just android, hypnotic power on cuts such as the revolving ‘Upper Left’ and the satirical ‘Dial Me In’, while there’s a flavour of sleep-deprived acid house on ‘Relay’ and ‘Meet Me At The End’. Throughout, and especially on the title track, the ghost of early Plastikman is never far away. ’25 25’ is a severe, uncompromising album, but the ones that like it will love it.
7/10
