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[POST-INDUSTRIAL] London's Factory Floor is a
manufacturer that has fully embraced cottage industry over mass
production. Forging some of the harshness of industrial with a lightness
and space borrowed from minimalist techno, the three-piece band makes
driving, carefully constructed electronic music that isn't cranked out
so much as slowly fermented. Despite four years with the current lineup,
the group's self-titled debut was just released late last year on DFA,
complete with label's standard left-field vocal samples. To the
uninitiated or undercaffeinated, Factory Floor can start to feel
backbreaking around track five, but the open-minded will spot some true
promise. While the record was still brewing, the group drew some
standout remixers to the table, including New Order drummer Stephen
Morris and industrial pioneer Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle. But
this is a revolution, not a hit machine. It's the latter, not the
former, that is Factory Floor's true paragon, inhabiting the margins of
music so fully it can't be ignored.
WWeek 2015