The Industrial Twilight: The Epoxies - "Stop The Future" [2005]

Monday, April 25, 2016

The Epoxies - "Stop The Future" [2005]

Artist: The Epoxies

Title: Stop The Future

Genre: Synthpunk

Country: USA

Release date: 2005

Track List:

Radiation
This Day
Synthesized
Robot Man
Wind Me Up
Everything Looks Beautiful on Video
Stop the Future
Struggle Like No Other
No Interest
You Kill Me
At the Seams
It's You
Toys

The Epoxies were a electropunk band from Portland that gained considerable popularity in mid-2005s. I stumbled upon this album in 2007 (if my memory serves me right) and immediately loved it. This album is more on the pop side of things that most of the albums in the "punk" section of my blog, but I don't see a problem with it; nearly all the songs are very cathchy, with pleasant female vocals. The band themselves describe their style as "robot garage rock".

"The group's music is a novel synthesis of punk rock and new wave but their lyrics are strictly focused on science fiction themes, Atomic Age futurism, alienation and consumerism. Robots, androids, clones and nuclear weapons all figure prominently in the Epoxies' lyrics... They were known for using special effects for their live act and sporting home-made costumes, sometimes made mostly of duct tape" (Wikipedia)

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I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:

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