Naked

Naked

Total Power Exchange

Halcyon Veil

Blistering, BDSM-inspired power electronics and transgressive industrial dance from Mykki Blanco-collaborators NAKED, ripping lyrics from Salò over a nailbed of sex sounds and anti-peristaltic convulsions for spine-busting effect. We’d wager even William Bennett or Prurient might be impressed with their efforts here.  The emo, shoegazy tropes of previous NAKED releases are swiped away this time in favour of proper stare-down sonics and eviscerating vocals, coughed up in four tarry black lumps of gristly, hi-pitched noise and ramrod beats designed to leave nobody on the fence.  Taking its title from a masochistic practice where the submissive gives to the dominant partner power and authority over the submissive’s body in exchange for the submissive’s happiness and health - which can also be taken as metaphor for socio-political control - NAKED live up to every letter of that premise, subjecting the listener to a barrage of unpleasantries/ecstasies in the destructive maul of Unleash Me, then drowning them like Yellow Tears in the cistern with the paso-doble flashcore battery of Spit, before sousing ears with incendiary sonics in Disease, and obliterating the senses via tirade of blastbeats and unrepentant squall in Whip.  We promise they aren’t messing about; my ears are seriously ringing right now. Approach with caution/abandon; find your limits.  RIYL Pan Daijing, Croww, Rabit, Whitehouse