This is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026
Bruise Blood: You Run Through the World Like an Open Razor (Rocket Recordings)
Welcome to more highlights of 2025. I banged on about dozens of best-of-2025 albums, and now we’re into the Top 20 Bangers. The very best electronic music releases of 2025. With Bandcamp embeds and everything.
If you like your EBM, you may well adore this album from Teeth Of The Sea’s Mike Bourne. It’s industrial, crunchy synthwave noisecore kind of thing, splattered with acid and shoegaze and ‘orrible grubbiness.
I’m behind schedule with writing these blog posts, so forgive me for a moment of laziness. Here is an extract of me talking about the album when I interviewed Bruise Blood for Electronic Sound magazine. This was published a couple of months ago:
“This is a dirty album. Not the sanitised kind of dirty you get in detergent commercials in which a child splats ketchup onto their impossibly white polo shirt. This EBM-inspired workout is the filth of electronic aeons, riven with analogue grime and the leaking pneumatics of old studio hardware.
“For example, Cede leads with an impossibly dented bass rhythm while a rusty sawtooth yowl cuts through a splatter of vinegary ambience. And the scuzz of the title piece is so mesmerizingly broken, your inner cave-dweller will be bashing rocks to its 85bpm stomp.”
That pretty much sums it up. Thanks, past me. A doff of the cap should go to music magazine The Quietus for giving 'Blood the impetus to create this album, and to make our world a whole lot grubbier. I love it.
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