Blanck Mass

As Blanck Mass, Benjamin John Power takes the anthemic melodies and heroic doses of noise he pioneered with Fuck Buttons in directions that are sometimes more immediate but always thought-provoking. Though he introduced the project with the amorphous drones of 2011's self-titled album, it was with 2015's Dumb Flesh that he defined Blanck Mass' approach: heavy beats that flirted with danceability, chopped-up vocal samples, and an overriding concept (in this case, mortality and decay) that held together his music's rapid twists and turns. Whether railing against political injust...