CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
Repetition Reinforcement
Diagonal pull another coup with 12"s of brute bitterness from Philip Best, Sarah Froelich and Russell Haswell's Consumer Electronics. With the spray of their blinding 'Estuary English' still wet on our cheek, 'Repetition Reinforcement' is a bruising, visceral reminder of CE's position on the periphery of extreme electronic music. Holding steadfast to the transgressive subject matter which Best has explored since the early '80s as part of Whitehouse and Ramleh, in this excursion he trades …
Nobody's Ugly
Original, long out of print, few available: Whitehouse's Philip Best goes it alone on this outing as Consumer Electronics (although since William Bennett takes the production credit for the album, you pretty much take this as a standalone Whitehouse release in its own right). This time around Best's verbal abominations are left at home, and there's really nothing to indicate an explicit vocal presence over the course of the LP. Instead, you're treated to a symphonic tirade of distortion an…