A.D. Amorosi wrote a fantastic and very positive review of the new Brainclaw CD, Dead Monsters in this week’s edition of the Philadelphia City Paper. Here is the text of the review:

From the bouncing sequencers to rolling, roiling melodies, Philly’s Brainclaw may just be EBM’s new best friend. Underneath the tiny elegance is a grandly seductive steeliness that makes Nine Inch Nails look like Tackhead. David and Tara Giuffre — Brainclaw’s married duo — use scuffed up techno-electro as a scabby soundtrack for torrid tales about big subject matter. You know: the Machine, the Demon, the Space We Inhabit. Like the Serpent in the Garden, there’s something insidious and beautiful within “Euphorium” and “The Temporal Tide.” For “Soft Self Portrait,” you’re repelled by their images of godliness and pain yet unable to draw yourself too far from its passion. But, as Roger Waters did with these tall topics, Brainclaw ekes out messages so personal and detailed, it’s as if each phrase is poured through each pore.

—A.D. Amorosi

Many thanks to A.D. and the City Paper for the great press. To view the article on-line, go HERE.

The digital revolution continues… Both current Brainclaw albums are available for digital download on the top music distribution network: iTunes! New Brainclaw CD Dead Monsters just joined 2004 album Insekt/Angel on iTunes for availability. The full albums can be downoaded for just $9.99 each, or you can at last buy the songs individually, for only 99 cents per song.

Just go here, download and install the iTunes software, go to the iTunes Music Store in the program, and do a search for ‘Brainclaw’ in the search box, upper right corner. It’s as simple as that!

Not an iTunes fan? Here are a ton of other digital music outlets also offering authorized Brainclaw digital downloads:

GroupieTunes, Choice Records, Inprodicon, Emusic, MusicNow, Destra, WrapFactory, Daiki (Music Online Corp), MP3tunes, Chondo, MSN Music, Rhapsody, YooPeDoo, PayPlay, BuyMusic, AudioLunchbox, Napster, Bitmunk, DigitalKiosk, Interia, Liquid Digital Media, GreatIndieMusic, iSound, MOD Systems, MP3-Extension, MusicNet, MusicIsHere, Weed, Intent Media Works, Sony Connect, TastyAudio (1776), PeerImpact, PlayIndies, MPGreek and Sonific.

Brainclaw will be appearing live in Albany, New York on Saturday, September 2. Playing with Brainclaw will be good friends Eisdrive, along with a stellar night of electro-industrial DJ action in Albany’s greatest room, Red Square.

Many thanks to promoter Dani and Alien-Nation for making this fantastic night happen. We loved Albany when we were there last year, and are looking forward to this show. The crowd was friendly and enthusiastic, and this room and crowd are supposed to be even better!

There will be brand-new Brainclaw merchandise available at this show, including the new Dead Monsters CD, new Brainclaw tee shirts and girly shirts, buttons and posters. We hope to see you there!
Stay tuned for more details as they become available…

There was an excellent review of the new Dead Monsters CD in the Polish electromusic webzine Electr-On. We had our crack team of translators working around the clock to give us the English version, and here it is:

“It is a perfect match with Brainclaw, duo or quartet (it officially varies from live show to studio with them), but generally, because it is electro/ebm, it is a project that is very often found on the famous series of compilation CDs “Interbreeding”. I don’t remember exactly what was their the debut record, but their second one, is really hot, called “Dead Monsters”.

Now that they are signed to BLC Productions, the group has put out improved sound, production and all. The mix has old school ebm with modern ( high - tech ) electro, and even with synth/future-pop memories ( Euphorium ) sounds good, plays very well in MP3 player. The biggest advantage the album is probably variety. In no place do you get bored listening. Every second of thick sound, the other electronic fraction and we have industrial-rock, which is feeling like sharp, riffy and guitar-like in a few places and also with sharp, rock-style vocals.

We have also future-pop flavors and soft, gentle pleasure for ears songs, also we have a little of electro-punk’s wildness (mostly for wild Tara’s vocal) and pretty much classic ebm-old-school melody line ( fantastic classic “Hipocritic”). (more…)

Brainclaw music was chosen to accompany a strange new webshow called Our Prisoner. Here is the description of this weird but oddly compelling program from the ourprisoner.com website:

Kieran Vogel will make Internet television history when he becomes the first person to give total control of his life to the Internet. Kieran, age 35, lives at home with his elderly parents and his 54 year old half brother. Kieran has never earned more than $10,000 a year working in pet stores while in pursuit of his lifelong dream of becoming a published writer and cartoonist. Kieran has now decided that almost anyone could do a better job in making his decisions and he is willing to prove it. (more…)