An Experiment in Industrial: Miss Construction Will Make You Move

SCORE: 100/100

Example number 800,000 why German industrial is some of the best you can get - see Miss Construction.


Berlin's very own music group set the stage for themselves in early 2008 with this album, with a razor-sharp image that has been radically fine tuned into one deeply, darkly industrial, danceable, harsh, and sexy sound that you won't be able to get enough of. The deeply mechanical and throbbing sound of each beat leads each song into the next with clearly practiced ease, and the end result is one of the most underappreciated gems that the entire industrial scene has to offer. 


'Kunstprodukt' often feels like the female image at its most dominant. There's a huge sense of control within this entire album - and even when there are male vocals, the undertones and imagery of the album make it impossible to see this as anything other than an incredible display of female power in a genre largely dominated by men - Miss Construction is in charge now, and we're all just living in her characterized world. She knows what she wants, and she makes sure she's gonna get it.


On this album almost every song feels like a highlight - and despite having the traditional long-form tracklengths that most works of industrial music follow, this album goes by fast as a stray bullet. There's a huge sense of literacy within the genre that left room for the band to experiment as the album went along; and they used this time more than just wisely. They used this extra room for shifts and unexpected sounds to make an album that truly pops, and the result is one of the most experimental electronically focused industrial albums you can get your hands on. Grooves have never been ridden as hard as they are here.


This album is for everyone who loves the harder sounds of KMFDM and the German-only sound of Rammstein - both styles can be found reinvented and shaken up within 'Kunstprodukt', and the sheer prowess of the band makes this album feel like more than just an essential. This album manages to be one of the most definitive and comprehensive looks at electro industrial at its most punchy, dance-centered and sexy, and the fact that this didn't manage to make it huge like other bands that took on similar styles makes the thought of this album almost saddening due to its lack of a mainstream breakout. You won't find quality like this anywhere else - and you won't find industrial that feels so electronically experimental anywhere else either.



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