This is the debut album from Tayne, an industrial rock band from the UK.
Love contains 31 minutes of industrial rock/metal, taking a variety of influences and using them to create something quite charismatic. Tayne’s music is easy to enjoy if you like your tunes to consist of multiple component parts, all joined together with skilled vision.
Okay, in a fit of laziness I’m going to directly quote the promo blurb here, as it’s as good a starting point for Tayne’s music as anything – “TAYNE is an Industrial Noise Pop band that subverts pop music and pushes the genre to extreme limits. Melodies collide with violent synths and riffs topped with ghost-like vocals to create a stark melting pot. A powerful hybrid of noise which takes as much cues from Lady Gaga as it does from Nine Inch Nails.”
So there.
Love is an album of insidious hooks. The more you’re exposed to its ample charms, the more you want to dive back into its multihued world. The various screams, cleans, riffs, synths, beats, electronics, etc. all come together in an industrial melting pot that’s as hot as a steamy nightclub, yet as enjoyable as something far better.
Love is a dance floor hit factory that’s metallic enough for the mosh pits. The songs are layered and busy, but never overcrowded. They balance beauty and grace against harsher, heavier elements well, resulting in a pleasing mashup of styles that come together coherently, with a decent amount of diversity on display. Guests from members of Cage Fight and Rolo Tomassi appear too, adding their own touches to their respective tracks.
This is a curious mix of old and new, from older acts like Ministry, Godflesh, and Nine Inch Nails, to others such as The Armed, Author and Punisher, and Health. Tayne walk a path of their own within this, and have forged an album that’s easily enjoyable, readily replayable, and surprisingly satisfying.
Very highly recommended.
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