“Blanck Mass' Animated Violence Mild is a crucial, necessary return”
“With the unlikely Olympian duo Fuck Buttons having largely been on the back burner since 2013, Benjamin John Power has had plenty of time to concentrate on his side project, Blanck Mass. Not surprisingly, many of the highlights of his fourth solo album – a treatise on capitalism and loss – nod to Power’s better-known band. Death Drop drags distorted death metal screams on to the dancefloor and end”
“Back in 2010, when Blanck Mass was in its embryonic stages, Benjamin John Power was already wrestling with some of the heavy themes that would shape his future work. Death, nature, science and consumerism have all become creative canons as he’s shifted from the bleak, dark ambience of his self-titled debut through to the danceable Dumb Flesh and the expansive sound of World Eater. That path of tr”
“When Benjamin Power – one half of electronic duo Fuck Buttons – started his Blanck Mass project in 2011, it took a form very different from its current shape . His self-titled debut album with the project was a shimmering collection of slow-moving drone, swimming in atmospheric twinkles. Across two more albums (2015’s formative ‘Dumb Flesh’ and the teeth-bearing ‘World Eater’ two years later) Pow”
“The Fuck Buttons member’s fourth solo album channels the horrors of the surveillance state and the creeping dread of everyday life into the most aggressive music of his career.”
“Animated Violence Mild is an electro-industrial bangerfest on par with World Eater.”
