
A high-velocity collision of 90s jungle breakbeats and industrial rock. Aggressive, digital, and restless, it captures the frantic pulse of the pre-millennium city.
February 1, 1997 · BMG Entertainment International
Hyper-kinetic drum and bass breakbeats and abrasive industrial textures collide in a high-octane digital assault. This lean, self-produced effort trades the sprawling narrative of the recent past for a bright, aggressive immediacy, plugging a veteran voice directly into the frantic, sampler-driven pulse of late-nineties underground club culture.
How does Earthling sound next to the rest of David Bowie's catalogue?
A frantic reliance on the synthetic snap of the drum machine replaces traditional percussion, driving the record's cybernetic pulse with a relentless, mechanical velocity.
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