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This album opens with it's title track which is brought into the light by taped applause. The track itself is hooky & memorable with a variety of twists & turns of sound & structure. Combining semi--whispered vocals & taped / found voice this shows a mature & well-thought-cut approach to composition. "Suffer" is again a variable track keeping a central theme while the song itself dances around in a variety of different directions and the lyrics anchor the whole body down enough to tame it. "K.R.A.S.H." is a more Rocky piece with flecks of NIN in it's Hip-Hop-put-on-too-much -weight arrangement. As with most of the tracks on this album, it has a message to get across, this time concerned with Racism (an issue much to their hearts as these four guys are so-called 'Black'). "Pipe-Dream" threatens to knock out your speakers with it's bass-heavy drum sounds. It is a more experimental track, having a slow, varying sound, moody & dark with enough rich colour to make it one of my favourite tracks. "Faceless" is a medium-paced piece with a sub-Rock soul & is probably the most obvious 'single' choice on the album. Again this reminds ne a little of REZNOR's style of arrangement, although this is a little looser, less face-kickingly hard. "BlackPeople" takes 'found' vocals & arranges them without clutter around a mild track which is more for listening than dancing, although it does have a certain hidden power, it is more pacifying than activating. "Spearhead" is another melodic piece based around a heavy, slow drum pattern. It takes it's time, easing itself along as if an odd-shaped body moving through an almost-tight, lubricated tunnel. "False Media Gods" comes next, again showing a variable approach to the arrangement. It's full of bright colours & interesting shapes while remaining very much an 'album track'. "Last Breath" is a passive piece which might make a single, although concentrates more on warm, enveloping melody than physical, driving beat/rhythm. Again this comprises both vocal samples and semi-whispered voice, a hybrid which this group often use to their best advantage. "Rabid" is a little more fiery in parts, with a central theme of snappy snare around which a small, busy bassline works hard & a myriad synthetic sounds add enough interest for the vocalist to surf his voice across. "Execute" is harder, in both sound and subject - it certainly seems pro-Death Sentence & is based around a sub-Rock-like dance piece. "Ruled And Fooled" is again political, the title at least giving you a hint as to what lies within. "HIV+" is 'dedicated to the neverending efforts, of some, towards AIDS awareness and prevention. Also to the men and women everywhere trying to find a cure' and is one of the most interesting tracks on the album, using fuzz guitar in one of the most creative ways I have heard in ages, over the top of a hard beat - colourfully interesting, a large, bright piece of music, The album closes with "Mind", a curious piece which adds vocal samples to a skeletal rhythm, full of interesting sounds. It decays away on drifting non-beat sounds, drawing the album to a close. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.