Factory Floor - Fall Back

Even though they’ve released only a handful of tracks, Factory Floor have already created their own dark corner, a claustrophobic universe whose gravity pulls you in and won’t let go.

Every minute detail that creates their sound – every drum beat and every juddering blast – seems to have been achingly deliberated over. The results could best be described as propulsive, alien electro, melding clattering house and ice-cold post-punk together to create intense and epic ‘floorfillers’.

And, from its opening glacial shards of primitive electro, it’s clear that ‘Fall Back’, the first single off their forthcoming DFA-released debut LP, is the best thing they’ve produced so far.

It’s the sound of undergoing electro-shock therapy with every listen; insistent stabs, like constant pin pricks on your brain that you don’t want to stop. Nik Colk Void’s disembodied alien voice asks ‘Did it feel like you were going to fall back?’ over nine minutes of throbbing, kinetic house and a skittering and jolting beat which bludgeons your head in the best way possible.

It’s a masterful lesson in control from an act who seem destined to be one of the most important in 2013. The bar has been set high – and the album promises to be something very special indeed.