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Album Review: KEN Mode - Success

Christopher H James
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"Increasingly resourceful lyrical missives against a lurching Jesus Lizard-esque clatter produced by anti-rock Svengali Steve Albini."

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Having gradually snowballed a cult following with sludgy metallic hardcore, KEN Mode (that’s Kill Everyone Now Mode folks) seem to be cleaning up their act.

Sucking out some of the adrenaline and shaving off much of the fuzz that engulfed their previous assaults, Success is evidence of their increasingly resourceful lyrical missives against a lurching Jesus Lizard-esque clatter produced by anti-rock Svengali Steve Albini. Some fans may miss joyfully spreadeagling themselves in the audio muck of old, but it’s an evolution of sorts.