Benjamin John Power has described this album as “A snapshot of a painful period”. The deaths of his father and beloved producer Andrew Weatherall cast a dark shadow over the recording. He may not have intended it as a soundtrack to the global lockdown but that’s exactly what it sounds like to me.
The Koyaanisqatsi-eseque buzz of the first four minutes is followed by a celebratory blast akin to the ‘Olympians‘ track used during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in the Summer of 2012. Seems like a lifetime ago.
Most reviews of Blanck Mass cite Power’s earlier work with Andrew Hung as one half of the Bristol-based of the Fuck Buttons duo which created the aforementioned ‘Olympians’ but that was then. This is now. Continue reading
“I’m told I was a violent child” is the opening line in a voiceover in this bold and bruising tale of toxic masculinity.
