"At First We Thought It Was Another Massive Allied Bombing Attack, But This is Quite, Quite Different."

Your music editor here - I like eighties music. Who doesn't? Skinny Puppy? Leaether Strip? Remember that?

Hell, I LOVE Leaether Strip - but maybe they're more a nineties gig. I remember the guy who first handed me a copy of Fit for Flogging. Well, damn - Alfa-Matrix has just (like a week ago, I think) released a new FREAKIN' Strip album.

Thank God for iTunes. I like the album already. This is a two-disc set, and it opens up with a style that you'd expect - plenty of sampling, synth, hard rhythms, and the-world-is-fucked sentiment.

I won't go through a track-by-track narration - dissecting with drivel for show. If you like Leaether Strip, you're probably happy enough knowing another album came out.

The theme of the album is intelligent. Europe has been going through some crazy, crazy shit in the last ten years. Notably all the violence (let alone this Georgia/Poland/Russia/Nato stuff now). Put in context or not, you'll enjoy this album.