The return of Factory Floor is something to celebrate, Gabe Gurnsey and Nic Colk Void back on modular synths and drums along with new member Joe Ward and an album inspired by a one off live performance in Montreal. The album, One Trip, comes out at the end of the month. At Bandcamp and elsewhere there are four new tracks ahead of the album- the title track came out last week, a rhythmic thump with percussion and dive bombing synth sounds.
Buzz Saw is a little lighter in tone, analogue synths and a fragment of Nic Colk Void vocal that goes off in an acid house warehouse way a minute in. Between You came out last year, juddering and hypnotic with one of those repetitive vocals. The band say the album was partly a re-connection with their days playing gigs in pre- gentrified East London, the physicality of electronic noise and rhythm played loud.
At the start of the album is a track called Continuation, a wonderful lead in with wobbly synths, a kick drum and detached vocal, oscillating and building, the sound spiralling and hypnotising. Lovely stuff.
Vinyl, cassette, CD, digital- all available to buy at Bandcamp and elsewhere.
Factory Floor's previous album, the magnificent 25 25, came out a decade ago. A soundtrack to the silent film metropolis came out in 2018. Gabe Gurnsey (drums, percussion and synths) had two solo albums in the interim, Physical in 2018 and Diablo in 2022. Eyes Over, from Physical, was a huge record- speaker rattling, bass with an actual physical presence, all kinetic energy, sirens and synths.
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