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Rolling one cigarette after another from his home in the East Lothian Council of Scotland, Benjamin John Power is invigorated. Known to the music world as Blanck Mass, or that guy from Fuck Buttons, Power turns his device around to his backyard so I can s
(Sacred Bones) Travel the world as Benjamin John Power mines a decadeâs worth of field recordings on his gratifyingly singular fifth album Benjamin John Power. Photograph: Harrison Reid Benjamin John Power. Photograph: Harrison Reid Sun 28 Feb 2021 10.00 EST In Ferneaux represents something of a departure for electronica auteur Benjamin John Power. After the euphoric and abrasive maximalism of 2019âs Animated Violence Mild, and his work as half of Fuck Buttons, Powerâs fifth album as Blanck Mass is a more oblique affair. A product of lockdown isolation, it comprises two lengt...
'In Ferneaux' Takes Blanck Mass to Surprising New Places Published Feb 25, 2021 7 "I think your destiny has been very hard and traveling," says a voice halfway through Benjamin John Power's sprawling fifth album as Blanck Mass. It's a fair assessment of both the lives of touring musicians in general and Power's electronic odysseys in particular. Blanck Mass records are intense, energetic affairs, harnessing the most kinetic elements of EBM, industrial and noise to fuel songs that are expansive in structure and propulsive in tempo. Be it the bristling blitzkrieg of 2017's World Eater or the ...
Blanck Mass announces new album In Ferneaux Blanck Mass announces new album In Ferneaux Benjamin John Power has unveiled his new Blanck Mass album, In Ferneaux. Starstuff is previewing a record which has been inspired by field recordings amassed from a decade of global travels, these brought together on a tracklist which is divided succinctly into Phase I and Phase II sections. “This is music which rejects the sterility of compromise, the perfect illustration of what’s possible being the eye of the storm is Creature/West Fuqua, the hell of our mass destruction given temporary relief by an...