Rhys Fulber - Your Dystopia, My Utopia (2018)

Rhys Fulber is a veteran producer who was best known for his work as part of Front Line Assembly. Your Dystopia is his debut album under his own name, and it's a bleak but enthralling affair. From the dense, stepping breaks of "Cognitivia" and "Inhabits Eternity" - where a creepy vocal insinuates itself into the arrangement - through the pounding, ebm-fuelled "Limited Vision" and "Creosote", and the tough techno of "Truncheon", a bleak mood hangs over each track. While it is more visceral than Fulber's storied back catalogue as Front Line Assembly, pieces like "Anhedonia" do imagine the brutal, dystopian world that Fulber has always hinted at with irresistible malevolence.