Front 242 already had notable singles and albums under its belt several times over but with Front by Front the founders of EBM created its ultimate defining document. Without being a concept album as such it retains a rich sense of unity and elaboration on key themes, lyrical and musical, in its portrait of a forbidding electronic landscape of control and threat. Songs like “Im Rhythmus Bleiben” and “First In/First Out” are pitch perfect examples but it’s the stellar “Headhunter,” presented in its ‘V3.0’ mix, which became the group’s signature song overall.

– Ned Raggett