Labels: GSL
Review by: Alex Deller
Year Future sound like tunnel vision. Churning, murky, malevolent sounds caused by a claustrophobic veil of rolling drum/bass and chipped shards of guitar jagging out like splinters under fingernails. Sonny Kay (Angel Hair/the VSS) sounds suitably out of control, yelping it up with his patented snotty yap and cryptic wordplay, posing questions of power, control and aquiescence with loose-limbed energy and a beehive for a megaphone. As with the VSS there’s a distinctive 80s influence about Year Future’s sound, but it’s the edgier aspects that are hit upon, drawing on the dark, mechanical inhumanity that permeated the era rather than dumbed-down pop sensibilities or played-out kitsch aesthetics. The end result is a three-song attack of paranoia that pushes itself toward an uncertain destination, proving to be not merely the least offensive article GSL has released in many moons, but a damn fine 7″ in its own right.