//Tense// and LOOM11 releases. Synth ahoy!

Desire Records has some great releases at the moment, the new //Tense// album Memory for example which is amazing and only $8. Listen to a mixed sampler of it below!

There are also still a few copies left of //Tense//s Introducing EP on CD and tape.

Also from Desire comes the LOOM11 single Artifacts on lovely white 7" vinyl.

The brainchild of Elon Katz the writer and producer behind Chicagos White Car. LOOM11 see's him going in harder EBM direction, all classic digital synth and thrusting drum machines. Get it here.

//Tense// release full length album, Memory.

//Tense// are just a superb Texan industrial electro-goth/darkwave band that should be far more well known than they are (see Bosco Delray for equally unknown genius!)

Anyway that might all change with the release of their first proper full length album of ten all new tracks called Memory.

Out on Desire Records soon it will be on CD, digital and limited edition vinyl, so formats galore! Still doesn't top Geneva Jacuzzis upcoming 8 track version of her album Lamaze. Though if that actually happens or not is another thing entirely!

Here's a great //Tense// track I didn't post before that also has an equally nice video!

This is the track listing for their album:

1 - WORK HARD SHORT LIFE
2 - SIN REALITE
3 - PERPETUAL SWIM
4 - MINE TOO
5 - LOST RACE
6 - EMPTY HANDED
7 - THE VISITOR
8 - LEAD HEAD
9 - LIVING DREAM
10 - RAPID PULSE

//Tense// our industrial masters of tomorrow!

//Tense// formed like all the best bands out of a hatred of the music they heard around them! So in 2006 they started their sound, industrial, bass, drum rhythms, Depeche Mode and sweaty angry dancefloors. Houston Texas birthed these replicants who like oOoOO have a release coming soon with the Disaro label. They also have an album "Memory" and a limited release Ep on tape out with Desire Records (available here).

One cant help but feel their music is being played in an unseen club down a back street somewhere every time you watch BladeRunner. Check out Twisted Wires to get another angle on the same sound and if that isnt enough to make you scream for robotic joy and sell your eyes for food credits then check the video below to hear them immediately! Where the singer can be heard at the begining saying "hey babe you're cute I'm gonna fuck you after the show!"

Photos above by Gavin Guthrie.