Mononegatives - Crossing Visual Field 12"

Like 2021's Apparatus Division, Crossing Visual Field is a record that puts the punk rock in synth-punk. The chilling, apocalyptic synthesizers work in perfect harmony with sharp guitars, anxious rhythms, and vocals which are simultaneously robotic & anguished to create a soundtrack to our modern-day dystopia. The songwriting is far more complex and accomplished this time around and from start to finish, there's not a single sub-par track in sight and wherever your tastes on the synth/post-punk spectrum may lean, there's something on Crossing Visual Field for you. The album flows seamlessly between punk rippers like ‘Neutral Solution’, ‘Outcome Unknown’,  quintessential synth-wave numbers like ‘North Carolina Atomic Bomb’ and ‘Testing Capability’, and moodier tracks like ‘Disappearing Architecture’ and ‘Bel-Pre’ that bring to mind the 1980s heyday of dark post-punk evoking images of space warfare, factories of the apocalypse, and machines growing sentient...Crossing Visual Field sets the bar even higher for what contemporary synth-punk ought to be.