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Phace 'Plastic Acid' EP (Blackout)
A release with a hypnotic, hyper-shiny cover alone that’s been turning heads ever since it dropped, German tech puglist Phace’s ‘Plastic Acid’ EP kicks off with the fight-inducing tech howitzer ‘Beyond Number’, its Noisia-standard precision scattiness setting the tone for a right old electro-tech ruckus. The title track is a monster concoction of brutish industrial tech and jump-up silliness, its frenetic synth arpeggios suddenly squashed flat and shot out into the soundscape like huge tectonic plates – it comes on like a Muse track fed into a buzzsaw and reborn 3,000 years into the future.
8/10
