Michigan based Lazer Station, released the album Skies Of Rust on the 25th of March, 2022 which is out on the Brutal Resonance record label. According to what is on Bandcamp, ‘all songs written, performed, produced, mixed, and mastered by Lazer Station in The Void’. Where is this Void and how do we get there plus most importantly, if you are in this Void, can anyone hear you scream?
The beginning of the title track, “Skies Of Rust“, is like floating on synths before the guitars pull you back, to something that seems a little more serious, though, it does still doesn’t feel bound to the earth. “Corruption Of Society” kicks in and now we are going somewhere, with that flow of electronics that passes though from ear to ears and makes you bob your head in time to the music. Such an 80s tone to “Watching The End” which features UFO Witness…. a bit like the original Terminator soundtrack, where not all is well in the world. There is the desolation and urgency of “Jackals” that leads into the guitar distortion of “Circuits Of Life“, that ebbs and flows.
The techno influenced “Technocracy” seems above everything and so clean, while “Population” is a track that is tenuous, with the impression it is slipping away. A seething undercurrent of guitar is the base for “No Respect For The Deadly“, “State Of The Art” which features UFO Witness again, forges ahead in a futuristic manner and the oddly named, “Skulljacker” definitely is a track to get the blood moving. The last two tracks are bonuses with the first being “No Hope” which does have a certain desperation to it as it valiantly goes on and the original mix of “Skies Of Rust” that is more like a dream, waiting to take flight and that guitar kicks in much later.
For those not offay with Lazer Station, they are a purely instrumental project in the cyber industrial genre and they use electronic music to invoke science fiction story lines. They give the synopsis for Skies Of Rust as basically a world where greed and corruption has poisoned the planet, killing off swathes of the population and those that are left are huddled in cities, awaiting what might be their doom. A sci-fi story for now, that may become fact in the future. Even if you don’t know the premise, there is nothing stopping you from simply listening and absorbing the flow of music, admiring the musicianship and enjoying it.
Skies of Rust | Lazer Station | Brutal Resonance Records (bandcamp.com)
Onyx Music Reviews 