Release Date: 30 April 2020
Song Count: 8
Rating: 7.9/10
Description:
On yesterday's post, I said: "[This is] the one breakcore album I'm reviewing for this month, as I apparently seem to only do these on a monthly basis now." ...well, I suppose that tradition is now being broken - and far earlier than I imagined as well. And we've got a double whammy, with a review on the same day as the album coming to Spotify, something we only see every once in a while, albeit with the last time being just under two weeks ago.
As for today's record, it seems the arrival was timed perfectly with a streaming release (albeit 6 years after the initial release) by Brighton-born producer Wayne Adams, who also goes by the name of Ladyscraper publicly. A more classic act in the cinematic universe of breakcore, Adams has been making music in the scene since the 2000's, but appears to have largely slown down on putting out new stuff especially under the Ladyscraper project, with Heavy Electronics marking his first release in 5 years - going up to 7 years when only considering releases under the specific name. And though a lot of time has passed since this specific record has been out, the album marks as both a return to form as a short collection of hard-hitting tunes and as an almost punctuating mark of music summing up what Scraper is all about.
Brutal, chaotic, loud and all-in - those are some words one could use to describe the album in simple terms. The tracks most certainly do not play around in their intensity, and in spite of their total runtime being on the shorter end at just short of 30 minutes, they feel more than whole in their contents through the sheer amount of stuff going on. Immersion lies on the lightning-fast beats, chops and percussions taking the stage as voice and melody samples set a backing tone for each individual song, all coming together to form the fundamentals of classic breakcore music, all within one record.
There's very little else to really say about Heavy Electronics aside from the fact it excels at what it does and doesn't aim for anything it can't reach - it's just some good, old-fashioned classic breakcore that goes hard and shatters eardrums harder. It's simply a showcase of Ladyscraper being an absolute master of his craft, even after all this time making niche but enjoyable music. A very fun time overall, and a great one for a shorter yet intense experience!