Ardent debut from Minnesota experimenters To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie created quite a hype after its release on Kranky late 2007. “The Patron” is sinister yet unlike a lot of noisy artists not completely devoid of any musicality in the common sense (is it watered down noise or noisy electropop you decide). I quite like Mark McGee’s nightmarish soundscapes which permeate over guitar arpeggios and raw vocals by Guitar/Vocal Jehna Wilhelm, but my general distaste for industrial music bars me from enjoying all the songs here.

Shorter and more abstract pieces like “Dedicated Secretary, Liaison, Passionate Mother” worked much better for me. Nevertheless quite an established sound for a debut, and plus you can never go wrong with a name like “To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie” which almost only loses to “To Kill a Petty Bureaucrat”, which hopefully will be the name of my band when I form it.

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - I Box Twenty
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - DSLPM