NY Muscle

DJ Hell had the foresight to realise that electroclash isn’t a sustainable career choice, so he’s moved hiss focus on this, his third album, to the mean streets of post 9-11 New York. While the first half of the album features dodgy punk wigouts and the German DJ’s usual, fame-obsessed narratives, things get better when he bangs the acid box on ‘Let No Man Jack’, serves up some hazy, dubby techno on ‘/Follow You’ and ‘Limbische System’ and does proper old skool electro on ‘Black Panther Party’. Hell saves the best for last and the grimy ‘Meet The Heat’ with Alan Vega from seminal act Suicide on vocals perfectly captures the paranoid feel of modern day New York.