King Cobra album cover
King Cobra

Infinity Knives , Brian Ennals

2022
Phantom Limb

This is a furious, ferocious album. Infinity Knives’ complex tracks mix pounding beats that draw from industrial, every variety of hip-hop, metal and more with music that combines woozy, distorted samples with almost classical orchestrations. Sometimes (as on “The Not So Tired Sounds of Brian Ennals”) you’ll be reminded of Philip Glass or Steve Reich, while on “The Badger” — a story of the narrator’s attempt to kill his landlord, only to have the cops do the job for him — the beat sounds like a bank vault door slamming shut, while synths zing and hum in your ears like farting hornets. “Death Of A Constable” harks all the way back to early ’80s electro and mid ’00s synthwave, as Ennals advocates for police abolition through violent attrition.

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