This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Are they not men? Well, no. Actually they’re two men and a woman. But self-proclaimed London “synth terrorists” Add N To (X) are as beautifully mutated as those spudboys ever were.
On their first album On The Wires Of Our Nerves, they violently mind-melded with their Moogs, raging against the machines to wrench dark, squealing cacophonies of electronic agony. Now, it seems the humans have tamed their charges enough to elicit the occasional go-go Devo groove or breezy Kraftwerk workout, creating twisted cartoon soundtracks and jingles for products from other dimensions. But when the machines rear up — and they often do — Avant Hard plunges back into a dungeon where Throbbing Gristle battle Stereolab while David Cronenberg gets it all on video.
