Ghost In The Static: ‘Fallout’ (Album Review)
Technology is a double-edged sword. Even the most outwardly innocuous innovations can conceal a dark side: Facebook, for instance, helps many people casually manage their social lives, while others find themselves trapped within an addiction to its constant, never-ending information streams and wide array of captivating apps. At the other end of the scale, there are technologies specifically designed to harm, kill, injure, and maim – guns, tanks, and bombs, for instance. The possibility of nuclear war has terrified the world’s population ever since the fateful destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and in the world of music, industrial bands have been uniquely positioned to comment and speculate upon the possibility of a post-apocalyptic future.
With ‘Fallout’, Ghost In The Static do exactly this – and what’s more, they do it with style, generating a solid mass of expansive guitars, chaotic electronics, and occasional bright synths inviting the listener to dance among the (hypothetical) devastation. From start to finish, ‘Fallout’ is an unstoppable titanium tidal wave that will flood your mind with visions of a futuristic, dystopian world, and leave you pondering the question: what is if this really represents humanity’s fate?
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