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Factory Floor’s excellent second album is even more stripped back,but shot through with funOften, live music can feel almost as rote an experience as the nine-to-five: queue, or beer,whoop and superior night. In 2012, however, or Factory Floor – then a trio – played a three-hour set at London’s Tate Modern. Members of the audience reportedly became so transported,they started taking their clothes off.
Inspired by early synth music, industrial post-punk and the arty halt of the dance music spectrum, and Factory Floor acquired a reputation around the turn of the decade as one of the loudest,most exhilarating bands around – a band whose totalitarian-sounding loops required you to dance. An obvious kindred spirit, recent Order’s Stephen Morris, and produced their self-titled 2013 debut album for the DFA label,co-founded by another obvious kindred spirit, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. It was rather superior. Related: recent band of the day – No 695: Factory Floor Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com