WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE
‘AlphaMinx have captured that specific friction between the insignificance of time ("so short in the whole scheme") and the absolute value of a single life. By contrasting the “machinery flying overhead” with the memory of birds, they’ve hit on a powerful trope in electro-rock: the cold mechanical nature of war versus the organisc fragility of humanity. A protest song for the modern era, not only about the politics but also the existential toll of living through “a showering rain of bullets” Reveiw by Olivia Wakefield.