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A.R.E. Weapons

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New York duo (Matt McAuley and Brain F. McPeck) signed to Rough Trade; debut album mixes heavy riffs, post-jungle electronics, electroclash production and industrial-ambient passages.

Signed by Rough Trade; debut discussed in relation to 2003; praised for industrial-ambient tracks and compositional moments; criticized for electroclash production and naiveties.

A.R.E. Weapons' debut is a mixed but promising record: urgent punk energy and industrial-ambient passages stand out, while electroclash production and naiveté hold it back. The review highlights a few strong tracks alongside less convincing faster songs.

For:Listeners of electroclash, industrial-ambient and punk-influenced electronic rock.

 A completely black cover. The name and a painted face: kind of like Kiss but filtered through the distorted, mutated, and hallucinated imagination of the master John Carpenter.

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