Angel Attack delivers his debut album Divine Practicalities on his label, House of Reptile. The Boston and London-based artist blends several sound palettes, sharing his most poignant body of work to date. The album includes two remixes by Univac and Blind Delon, respectively.

The title track acts as a prelude to the album. A broken-beat, experimental number, it dips into cinematic soundscapes and warbling percussion, which Angel Attack describes as an “introduction to summarise the emotions we are about to experience on the album.” Tightening Tension follows suit. It’s a mutation of broken techno with electro flavours over a malicious Moog bassline, featuring the vocals of French producer IV Horsemen, whose lyrics conjure a smokey, bone-chilling atmosphere between skittery drums.

Angel Attack dives into a metal-edged mood on Ankles, stitching distorted riffs between broken beats. The energy is visceral. Come To Me is straight-up Japanese Horror-inspired electro, combining eerie textures with thudding kickdrums and a gnarly scream — a freaky trip at just over five minutes.

Franco-Spanish author, singer, DJ and musician Pedro Peñas Robles, aka HIV+, features on Oblivion War. A sludgy, slow-burning soundscape ensues with a deluge of downtempo, hip-hop and EBM textures, complemented by HIV+’s gravelly voice. Whipping up the pace, Wrists blurs the lines between sci-fi, electro and goth. A stinging melody snakes between staccato claps and ghostly pads — lethal energy of the highest order.

Forgotten is the postlude-type track of the album, and this is where Angel Attack’s interdisciplinary approach comes to life. It’s the most piercing tune of the release, complete with a guitar melody, stripped-back drums and pagan throat chants provided by Angel Attack. An introspective offering, staying with the listener long after the record stops spinning.

Angel Attack invites two of his favourite artists to remix Tightening Tension. Catalan producer Univac twists up the stems, serving a searing electro interpretation with a winding synthline and reverb-drenched vocals. On Blind Delon’s remix, the French synthwave and post-punk band seal the album with a dark and sultry 7-minute ride through noise. Potent synth notes and hair-raising vocals punctuate the soundscape, echoing the concept of the release: music as a mirror into the soul.

Feedback & Features:

“With an extremely experimental and industrial-looking debut album called “Divine Practicalities”, the Boston and London resident leaves artist Angel Attack at the start. Despite broken beats and distortions en masse, Angel Attack manages to create cinematic soundscapes that we find difficult to resist.

“Divine Practicalities” is a complex affair that relies on unorthodox methods, as exemplified by the Japanese horror-inspired ‘Come To Me*’.

Musical madness, but also insanely good.

This potpourri is accompanied by downtempo, hip Hop, EBM and techno structures occasionally by vocalists like IV Horsemen or HIV+, who add their unsettling voices to the diabolical beats and make us wonder if we wouldn’t rather be alone in a dark forest than listen to this album. The answer is:

No, we don’t want to because this LP is so incredibly captivating and penetrating, that we can’t help but listen.

Scary good. 9/10 Faze Mag

It was featured on Beat Mag – Music Treasures of the month.

The album was given 5 stars by Upperberry & Groove Magazine. Featured by Germany’s most important electronic music magazine, FazeMag – giving it a stellar 9 out 10, calling it “Irresistible musical madness” in its printed edition – praised as “Album of the Year” by Daniel Myer from Aufnahme + Widergabe, and supported by Berghain’s residents JAKOJAKO (Mute Records, B.Pitch Control) & Abstract Division, as well as Claude Young, A Thousand Details, Rommek (Blueprint Records), Angel Molina (Tresor), Cristian Marras (Suicide Club), Alessandro Adriani (Mannequin), Housemeister (BoysNoize), Boston168 (B.Pitch), Gotshell (Planet Rhythm, Detroit Underground, B.Pitch) & more.