The Gorillaz debut is still a generational album over two decades later
“Let’s make a manufactured band…”
Author: Tom Phelan Archives: 03/2026
James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, and the Metallica days they wanted to forget about
“You know, the big mouth that wants to just go-go-go.”
Bonnie Kemplay offers a pastoral respite from life’s hectic pace on ‘Big Machine’
“I live in a big machine / Feels like forever in a dream.”
The Edinburgh connection: Inside Chris Connelly’s jump from Scottish post-punk to Chicago industrial
“I listened to them, and this little light went off…”
Pink Stiletto invite us into their EBM world: “Dancefloors have always been spaces of defiance”
“I’m drawn to that intersection of sensuality and machinery…”
“Unbelievably crushing”: the heavy legacy of Godflesh’s searing industrial debut
“There is a pure nihilism in there…”
The Talking Heads album Trent Reznor called the leading masterpiece of the 1980s: “You are completely thrilled”
“The record enlightened and changed me.”
