Boys Noize - Power

No sooner have we got ourselves excited for big albums from Tiga, The Bloody Beetroots, Kissy Sell Out and Simian Mobile Disco, Boys Noize deliver.

Big in expectancy, big in importance and big in sound. This is Alex Ridha unleashing a gnarly techno beast. The album opens with the fluttering optimism of ‘Gax’, before getting altogether beefier as ‘Kontact Me’ states early bass quivering intentions. Thus ensues a twelve-minute and three-track period of thunderous techno, relentless during ‘Starter’ and altogether tense during album centrepiece ‘Jeffer’.

In true Boys Noize fashion, this album manages to bridge the minimal (‘Nott’, ‘Sweet Light’) with the fist-pumpers, in an electronic harmony that only Berliners can truly master.

8/10

Words by Joe Zadeh