Micron Sixty Three - Death is Colder Than Love

It grabs you, thrashes you, rotates you and throws you to the floor. And that’s only the opening. Micron Sixty Three provide an electrifying, head pounding slice of 80’s dance music with a darker filling of vocals that leave you as confused and disorientated as the flashing neon lights blaring in your face.  Intensifying every emotion you are almost able to smell the enthusiasm as the first track ‘Death is Colder Than Love’ conjures up images of quirky underground clubs with the lingering smell of cigarette smoke wafting through the air as the walls thud in unison with the beat.

 At times the track can be indeed headache inducing; a cacophony of sounds bundled together and smothered to, well, make noise. But what is dance music without noise? What is a beat without rhythm? Perhaps Micron Sixty Three’s sound should more aptly be described as structured noise, with lead singer Russell McNally’s somewhat sinister voice providing an aesthetic sound of pounding and hammering machinery; McNally’s voice reminiscent of a robot stuck on a monotone setting, incapable of hitting the high notes.

Seemingly taking tips from Bloc Party’s new album, Intimacy, track ‘Anatomy of No Escape’ is rather Flux inspired as well being combined with a rather Faithless sound - perhaps compared to the strikingly similar vocals of the lead singers– the result being Bloc Party with a bit of hardcore rave thrown in. Overall the second track confirms the setting of an underground club, hidden and unknown to all but those who are desire to seek it out. To those who cannot be bothered to go exploring then simply their single ‘Death is Colder Than Love’ is out on 15^th December.