Album review: Electric Callboy – Tekkno

If you explained to someone, poorly, what Bring Me The Horizon sound like, what they’d hear in their head isn’t too far away from Electric Callboy. A marriage of pop, metal, melodic punk and dance, everything they do is performed with maxed-out energy and (an admittedly knowing) sense of the ridiculous. It is exhausting, in that same way too much energy drink can actually make you feel exhausted. On Tekkno, they are relentless in this. First the good: We Got The Moves has an agreeable enough, Rammstein-ish stomp, the chugging bits of opener Pump It are satisfyingly heavy, the keyboardy metal of Mindreader is genuinely good and the best thing here, and closing track Neon is well-versed in the art of the big Euro-metal chorus as perfected by In Flames in about 2004. Problem is, the...

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