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King-Mob’s Industrial Noise Rock Single “Pendulum Days” is the Sonic Equivalent of a Movie Played in Reverse

King-Mob’s “Pendulum Days” sounds like a movie played in reverse. One imagines hearing hammered dulcimer creating tonal textural rhythms, steady and accented cymbal strikes and guitar squalling and sustaining urgent sounds while in the background vocals sound almost as if coming from a trance state. As the song progresses the band takes some chances in more conventional rhythms for a few moments rising in a run for volume before dropping back into what can be described as post-industrial noise jazz. What do you compare this to as a frame of reference? This Heat? Dazzling Killmen? The algorithm recommendations suggest Sightings and Morgan Garrett for more modern references which are apt enough. It’s not quite like that but if you’re into those bands you may find a lot to like in King-Mob’s uniquely creative and strange compositions. Listen to “Pendulum Days” on Spotify and follow King-Mob at the links below. The group’s new EP Arabesque is available now.

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King-Mob’s Industrial Post-Punk Single “Buddha Tombing” is Like the Menacing Soundtrack to a David Fincher Thriller

King-Mob’s single “Buddha Tombing” started off as music for a short film and composed of experiments with an AKAI S900 sampler. But what has evolved from that sounds like a mutated hybrid of Dazzling Killmen and A Place to Bury Strangers. Like deconstructed industrial post-punk but with deep reconfiguration of rhythm so that it comes off like a real time hip-hop beat played with live instruments. It has an edge, a brooding menace and it sounds futuristic and beautifully disorienting with its riffs stretched to the breaking point. The fractured beats really make it when paired with the measured pounding of the drums so that it does have a cinematic quality like a soundtrack to a new David Fincher thriller. Listen to “Buddha Tombing” on Spotify and follow King-Mob at the links below.

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King-Mob’s Harrowing and Hypnotic Industrial Collage Noise Rock Song “Arabesque” is as Haunting as it is Beautifully Unsettling

King-Mob’s use of loops, processed drones, razory and expansive guitar on “Arabesque” is hypnotic in its gritty and menacing yet haunted way. In its harrowing layers one hears resonances with The Body, This Heat and Swans. Pounding, accented, processional percussion interspersed with steady cymbal hits are almost a solid counterpoint to the gloriously scuzzy haze and distended cacophony of the other elements of the music working together and then manifesting as ascending, post-metal riffage but dissolving into ghostly atmospheres. It is refreshingly unlike much else you’ll be hearing this year unless you’re deep into the outsider noise and the weirder end of industrial noise rock and even at that it’s challenging to make any immediate comparisons yet it clearly has a strong creative coherence of its own. Listen to “Arabesque” on Spotify and follow King-Mob at the links provided.