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With every breath

Thru muck and grime

In every trek

We write …

Greg Bullock has spent enough time around darkwave to know that gloom by itself is cheap, and on 26EP he treats darkness less as decoration than as a blunt instrument for asking ugly questions. Bullock, co-founder of Cyborg Amok, wrote, produced, mixed, performed, and illustrated this four-song set himself at GABWorx Studio B, which gives the record the slightly dangerous feeling of a man locking himself in a room with synthesizers, a bass, an electric mandolin, and several subjects polite company usually keeps under the table. There is nobody here to tell him that mortality, ecological collapse, betrayal, and human endurance might be a bit much for one EP, which is probably why the record has teeth.

In Other Words starts with endurance, though Bullock does not turn survival into a greeting-card slogan. Trenches, mud, climbing, breath, effort: the vocabulary suggests a life measured by what it costs to keep moving. The song carries a reflective sweep that places Bullock somewhere between Depeche Mode’s electronic gravity and Roger Waters staring at civilization with his arms folded. There is comfort in the chorus, but the comfort has dirt under its fingernails.

Then comes Thirty Pieces, which drags betrayal, punishment, commerce, and crucifixion into the same dry stretch of ground. Bullock uses biblical imagery with the instincts of someone less interested in Sunday-school reverence than in the ugly exchange rate between flesh and money. Silver gets thrown, bodies get displayed, peace gets its monument, and the entire arrangement starts feeling like one of those public ceremonies where everybody solemnly agrees not to mention who paid for the nails.

I Ain’t Goin! is the EP’s great crooked grin. Bullock considers death and responds with the cosmic equivalent of hiding behind the couch when the landlord knocks. Angels can drag him away, Saint Peter can check his watch, and eternity can leave another message. Mortality remains right there in the room. Bullock’s electric mandolin and bass give the track a wiry, physical character, and its humour keeps the record from sinking beneath the weight of its own concerns.

Blu-Green Beauty turns toward ecological collapse and corporate arithmetic, with burning seas, damaged forests, fossil fuels, solar panels, recycling, and the familiar human talent for closing the curtains while somebody else totals the profits. Bullock’s anger is clearest here, yet he keeps the song anchored to concrete images rather than vague righteousness. The result has the clipped moral unease of classic synth-pop filtered through the suspicious eye of someone reading the financial pages beside an environmental report.

Across twenty minutes or so, 26EP keeps returning to responsibility: what we owe the dead, the living, the planet, and ourselves while there is still time to argue about it. Bullock’s hooks keep the philosophy from turning into homework, while his arrangements give each track its own shape and temperature. He has made a compact record about enormous subjects, and the best compliment is that none of them feel safely settled.

Listen to 26EP below and order the EP here.

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Back on the road to their seventh studio album.

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If you’ve ever seen the name Ovrkast, you probably thought you were reading the word Outkast for a second. The Bay Area rapper and producer, born Silas Wilson, has chosen a stage name that’s radically similar to one of the most popular hip-hop groups of all time. They’ve noticed.

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He intends to continue touring as long as his health allows him.

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Pray for me tonight
Blinded by your light
Stigmatize my mind
Your lost paradise

Anton, a Parisian post-punk project led by Anton Steinbock, carries itself with the severe romanticism of someone who owns more black coats than practical shoes, but their recent single Répression finds that severity loosening into something stranger, more fevered, and considerably more dangerous. Working with fellow coldwave artist Tout Debord, Steinbock pushes his music toward a place where devotion and psychic collapse keep borrowing each other’s clothes, while Leonid Diaghilev’s production gives the track enough space to breathe without sanding away its cold edge.

The guitars ring out in pale, eerie streaks, recalling Clan of Xymox during their 4AD era, while the bass keeps the floor beneath everything firm and deliberate. Synths reminiscent of Asylum Party and Little Nemo deepen the song’s French coldwave character, and its brooding melancholy brings to mind Scottish band Lowlife. Anton keeps these affinities personal through Steinbock’s low, echoing delivery and the movement between French and English. His voice sounds less like a performance than a private argument accidentally amplified through the walls of an empty Church.

This tension suits the lyrics, which circle despair, fixation, religious need, and the exhausting effort of trying to escape thoughts that have already memorized the route home. Emptiness becomes almost physical here, while religious language turns love into a strange transaction involving devotion, punishment, salvation, and sacrifice. There is a plea buried inside the song, though Anton wisely lets it remain uneasy. Comfort carries a price, paradise looks compromised, and the promise of another night together begins to resemble a trap with excellent lighting.

Tout Debord’s video takes those concerns and gives them a suitably Catholic mindspace. Performance footage is layered over religious images, cemeteries, stone, and monuments, with additional cinematography by Sylvester Engbrox adding another layer of distance between the body and whatever eternity is supposed to mean. The images of permanence become almost sarcastic beside a song obsessed with emotional states that keep mutating by the hour. Faith may promise forever; the people on screen still have to get through tonight.

Watch the video for Répression below:

Répression also marks a useful turn after Never Freed Myself, continuing Anton’s taste for austere post-punk while sharpening the drama and widening the frame. Since the project began in 2024, Steinbock has moved quickly from solo recordings to a live configuration with Gabriela Guyez, building a set that can pivot from harder post-punk material toward synth-heavy darkwave ballads. Répression works best as a collision between movement and paralysis: the body gets the beat, the mind gets the bad news, and the track keeps one boot planted firmly on the dance floor.

Anton has made a song for anyone who has ever mistaken obsession for revelation and then had to live through the morning after.

Listen to Répression below and order the single here.

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