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.
