Another Bandcamp Friday, another overflowing inbox…
This post is a roundup of (relevant to this site) new and upcoming music, a nod to upcoming events and livestreams both from this website and others, and also a catchup of what I’ve posted recently. Thanks to everyone who sends me new music and events, keeps me up to speed, and indeed simply reads these posts.
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/Releases out today or recently
/Upcoming releases
/Upcoming/Livestreams/Gigs/Club Nights/Events
/amodelofcontrol.com/next week
/amodelofcontrol.com/recent content
/Releases out today or recently
/Albums of the Week
23-Apr 2025 / Nevada Hardware / Split Scene / Bandcamp
Twenty-five minutes of joyous, cyberpunk-meets-big-beat-meets-thumping-industrial. Genuinely, it’s fucking fantastic and gets better with every listen.
25-Apr 2025 / Flesh Eating Foundation / Before the skeletal dance of our festering jesters / Bandcamp
The experimental group return with a seething album around politics and disability with a thumping bass undercurrent.
/New Albums
18-Apr 2025 / Tunde Adebimpe / Thee Black Boltz / Bandcamp
The TV on the Radio frontman expands his outlook with a fascinating, quite great solo debut.
25-Apr 2025 / BIG|BRAVE / OST / Bandcamp
BIG|BRAVE are always a lot to deal with, and here they write a soundtrack for a film that didn’t yet exist, with surprising results.
25-Apr 2025 / BRUIT ≤ / The Age Of Ephemerality / Bandcamp
These French experimental post-rockers release an album that is even better, and more powerful, than their last.
25-Apr 2025 / Employed to Serve / Fallen Star / Bandcamp
More savage hardcore/metalcore from this young UK band (who absolutely destroy live).
25-Apr 2025 / KAPUT / I / Bandcamp
Nadia Garofalo’s latest noisy-rock project is a fantastic debut.
25-Apr 2025 / Proyecto Mirage / Ashes To Ashes Sparks To Sparks / Bandcamp
The long-running Spanish industrial duo continue their unusual sounds.
25-Apr 2025 / Siamgda ꕾ Marie / Resistanz / Bandcamp
Tribal industrial that doesn’t quite go where you might expect.
25-Apr 2025 / Statiqbloom + Blush Response / Folding In/ Bandcamp
Two artists that both came to industrial techno from different origins, and the result is a punishing meeting of minds.
02-May 2025 / Model/Actriz / Pirouette / Bandcamp
Model/Actriz continue their percussive, electronic take on noise rock with an exceptional new album – which has considerably more nuance than I might expect, but also moments of skull-crushing force.
02-May 2025 / Philip Jeays / Victoria / Bandcamp
“English Chanson” Philip Jeays returns with his first new album in four years.
/New Singles/EPs
15-Apr 2025 / Comaduster / Black Sun Rays / Wavelike / Bandcamp
Comaduster returns at last with the first taster of the upcoming album, with two sublime singles.
16-Apr 2025 / Dream Hack / Platinum Paradise / Bandcamp
The Randolph & Mortimer side-project continues its enthralling exploration of their mid-90s dance influences.
23-Apr 2025 / SCALER / Broken Entry / Bandcamp
The rock-techno-industrialists lean ever further into electronics with their bruising new single.
02-May 2025 / Black Magnet / Endless / Bandcamp
Talking of bruising, Black Magnet continue the leadup to MEGAMANTRA (coming 27-Jun) with the bulldozing power of Endless.
02-May 2025 / Caustic / Thirsty Dog / Bandcamp
Less a cover and more a complete reinterpretation, Matt Fanale leads off FIEND I with a Nick Cave cover…
/New Compilations, Live Albums, Reissues
22-Apr 2025 / Klangstabil / chronik / Bandcamp
Another retrospective compilation from the ever-excellent Klangstabil, covering their – to these ears – greatest period.
25-Apr 2025 / Various Artists / FORMS OF HANDS 24 / Bandcamp
The traditional compilation from HANDS to mark this year’s FORMS OF HANDS festival.
28-Apr 2025 / Various Artists / Going Out Of My Head – Adventures On The Indie Dancefloor 1995-1999 / Cherry Red Store
Cherry Red turn their attention to the wildly eclectic chaos of late-90s indie dancefloors…
02-May 2025 / Various Artists / Electronic Saviors Vol. 7: ReUnion / Official Label Store
It might never have happened, but Jim Semonik has masterminded the seventh edition of this extraordinary series at last.
/Upcoming Albums
15-May 2025 / Bitter Ruin / Arches & Enemies / Bandcamp
It has been well over a decade since the last Bitter Ruin album, but they are back!
30-May 2025 / Dead Blood Cells / Medwave / Bandcamp
Promising Medway industrial.
20-Jun 2025 / Death Pill / Sologamy / Bandcamp
Snarling Ukrainian Riot Grrrl.
01-Aug 2025 / Debby Friday / The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life / Bandcamp
Debby Friday goes unashamedly pop.
15-Aug 2025 / Alison Goldfrapp / Flux / Official Artist Store
Alison Goldfrapp’s second solo album appears to be leaning into neon-drenched, 80s pop.
07-Nov 2025 / KAUAN / Wayhome / Bandcamp
KAUAN’s post-metal explorations take a step further into the unknown.
/Upcoming EPs/Singles
None this week.
/Upcoming Compilations, Live Albums, Reissues
16-May 2025 / Nadine Shah / Live In London / Official Artist Store
Nadine Shah’s stellar London show last year was recorded for posterity, it turns out…
/Upcoming/Livestreams/Gigs/Club Nights/Events
/amodelofcontrol.com continues to maintain an events calendar, but it has now moved to /amodelofcontrol.com/events – and is now a dynamic, searchable database, and you can add individual events to your own calendars. The listing has had a revamp and redesign (and I’m re-adding events, so it’s a bit of a work in progress).
If you have updates, relevant events for me, or want to tell me about something else, use the contact details above. It goes without saying that any gig or club still in the listing is subject to change at short notice, or may not happen at all.
/amodelofcontrol.com/next week
Coming up soon will be /Tuesday Ten /586, wrapping up the best tracks of April, also on Tuesday will be the latest in my livestream series: /TheKindaMzkYouLike /037.
/amodelofcontrol.com/recent content
/Tuesday Ten /585 /Everything In It’s Right Place
Songs about being right.
/Memory Of A Festival /041 /Resistanz 2025
My first trip to Resistanz in over a decade, and it was a whole lot of fun.
/Tuesday Ten /584 /Everything We Know Is Wrong
Songs about being wrong.
/Tuesday Ten /583 /In The Name of the Father
Holy week sees a look at the relationship between artists and their religion(s).
/Tuesday Ten /582 /Get A Real Tattoo
Songs about body modification.
/Tuesday Ten /581 /Tracks of the Month /Mar-2024
The best tracks of the past month.
/Tuesday Ten /580 /Into the Trees
As spring bursts forth, here’s ten songs about trees.
/Talk Show Host /077 /grabyourface
The first full interview on /amodelofcontrol.com in three years to talk about the extraordinary new album from grabyourface.
/Tuesday Ten /579 /Precious Things
Songs about anniversaries and the precious stones and metals that represent them.
/Tuesday Ten /578 /Tracks of the Month /Feb-2024
The best tracks of the past month.
/Tuesday Ten /577 /Can I Play With Madness
Songs about things going crazy.
/DJ /Circling Overland /005
EBM Day marked with a livestream.
/Tuesday Ten /576 /Cold As Ice
Songs about winter and the cold.
/Tuesday Ten /575 /We Are Family
Songs about intra-band relationships.
/DJ /Guest /107 /Mr Wynne’s Fifty-Tenth
Another landmark birthday for a friend, and they asked me to DJ, alongside Mortasha Kinski and DemonDaz.
/DJ /TheKindaMzkYouLike /036
We return to our occasional livestream schedule.
/Tuesday Ten /574 /Tracks of the Month /Jan-2024
The best tracks of the past month.