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release:
artist....: cut.rate.box
album.....: Luxury anxiety
type......: EP
source....: WEB/MP3
tracks....: 4
label.....: Alfa Matrix
store date: 2025-09-19
catalogue#: NONE
encoder...: LAME3.99r
quality...: 320 kbps / 44100Hz / Joint stereo
URL.......: https://open.qobuz.com/album/mv430p1rcvwfa
genre.....: Electronic
genres....:
- synthpop
- pop
- industrial
- futurepop
- electropop
- electro
- ebm
- dark pop
- dark electro
- alternative
- Brussel
similar...:
- The Parallel Project
- Aghast View
- Fictional
- din_fiv
- Negative Format
artist links :
discogs : https://www.discogs.com/artist/62521
last.fm : https://www.last.fm/music/cut.rate.box
myspace : https://myspace.com/cutratebox
official homepage: http://www.cutratebox.com/
label links :
bandcamp : https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/
discogs : https://www.discogs.com/label/8852
last.fm : https://www.last.fm/label/Alfa+Matrix
myspace : https://myspace.com/alfamatrix
official site : http://www.alfa-matrix.com/
beatport : https://www.beatport.com/label/alfa-matrix/5055
facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Alfa.Matrix
soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/alfa-matrix
wikidata : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173653
release links:
bandcamp : https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/luxury-anxiety-ep
tracklist.:
- [ 01. Fireshine 03:53.97 ]
- [ 02. Isticism 04:33.03 ]
- [ 03. Reel Life 03:35.41 ]
- [ 04. Outrageless 04:42.26 ]
comment...: |
After two decades of silence, CUT.RATE.BOX broke the static in June 2025
with the striking comeback single and video clip “Reel Life” - a
manifesto for the digitally disillusioned and an instant future-pop/EBM
club hit. Now, the visionary electronic project founded by G. Wygonik in
1989 delivers its full conceptual statement with “Luxury Anxiety”, a
four-part operetta for the modern age.“Luxury Anxiety” channels
collapse, resignation, anger, ambivalence, and sorrow into a tense and
emotional journey where techno-pop hooks clash with searing electronic
punk, and synthpop sensibilities refract through a cold, modern lens.
Drawing on influences like CABARET VOLTAIRE, WIRE, TONES ON TAIL and
BRIAN ENO, Wygonik sculpts a dense, synthetic soundtrack for a world
fraying at the seams. Across its four interconnected tracks, the EP
flows from the restless urge to burn everything down, to the hypnotic
spell of alt-fact language, through the curated addiction and unraveling
explored on “Reel Life”, and finally into a mournful yet faintly hopeful
elegy for lost civility.Accompanied by a hyper-cut generative video for
“Isticism”, the EP expands the thematic and sonic universe hinted at in
“Reel Life”. Where past CUT.RATE.BOX classics like “New Religion” and
“Dataseed” warned of a coming storm, “Luxury Anxiety” stares directly
into the wreckage of the now, finding both rage and beauty there.Highly
recommended for fans of cutting-edge melodic electronics with an edge,
in the vein of HAUJOBB, COVENANT, ASSEMBLAGE 23 and VNV NATION.This is
not a nostalgic comeback.It’s a reawakening.CUT.RATE.BOX is broadcasting
again.
biography.: |
cut.rate.box took shape in Florida and has since existed in Chicago,
North Carolina, and currently, New Orleans. They take influence from
many diverse sources - from the powerful atmospheres of Coil to the
dancefloor energy of Front242 - yet all the while mutating and advancing
towards an expanding style of flowing energy and mature lyrical concept.
cut.rate.box consists of g.wygonik and clint sand. Both share
songwriting, orchestration, production, concept and graphic design,
while live g. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/cut.rate.box">Read more
on Last.fm</a>