ELA MINUS - Acts Of Rebellion LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition silver colour vinyl.

Includes d/l code.

Highly recommended.

Much like Kelly Lee Owens with her self-titled in 2017, Ela Minus' debut further supplements the missing, female ingredient Electronica has been sorely lacking. Though her vocals play a more prominent role than the once-reserved Owens, Minus doesn't shy away from exhibiting her talents on the boards.

We see that with the show-stopping single "They Told Us It Was Hard, But They Were Wrong," a sleek Deep House spectacle that contorts Industrial rigidness to a dance floor for factory slaves performing menial tasks awaiting emancipation. Why the preposterous comparison?

Well, Acts of Rebellion takes a strong stance on self-expression and societal protestation, heard best on "Megapunk" and "They Told Us It Was Hard" but even the instrumental interludes - of which there's four that vary in tonality, "N19 5NF" plucked straight from Clark's chattering Tech House, for example - which feature titles like "Do Whatever You Want, All The Time."

Given that English isn't Minus' first language, her elementary lyrics can be forgiven and, in the event of "Dominique", actually heighten the appeal with quirky monotony a la The Knife's early career.