KnifeLadder is an interesting beast: they make music that sounds like it owes much of its inspiration to early industrial acts like Throbbing Gristle and Einsturzende Neubauten, yet you’d be hard pressed to label The Spectacle as either ”retro” or “dated.”  The songs on The Spectacle have a sharp foundation of neo-tribal drumming and scrapyard bass rumblings, overlaid with wails of sound and ritualistic, arthaus vocals that are often shouted or spoken over the din.  Overall, I’d hazard to say that the effect is somewhere between Death in June’s more experimental moments and Coil’s early work.  Think “C’est un reve” meets Horse Rotovator, with a dash of post-punk noisemongering for good measure.  This is industrial music with depth–not a blast from the halcyon days of rust and Thatcherean social decay, not a manifesto, and decidedly not dance floor filler–more of this, please.

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