The Glitch Mob enter new territory with their newest album, “Ctrl Alt Actuality”

In computing, the operate ctrl+alt+del mostly brings up the duty supervisor, an working system part that offers a consumer entry to a few of the pc’s most inner processes and data. Right here, you possibly can examine {hardware} utilization, add/take away applications and processes, lookup app historical past, and extra. Briefly, it’s the not-so-secret window into your favourite electronics’ soul.

The Glitch Mob have been a pillar in digital music for over a decade, and their affect on stay present manufacturing and musical tendencies is tangible, to place it evenly. However between their final studio album, See With out Eyes, in 2018 (not counting the Drink The Sea anniversary album, the Drink The Sea ambient model, and Revisions, all releases between 2020-2021), and now, the trio has dived into their processes and reviewed their historical past and are available out the opposite aspect with Ctrl Alt Actuality.

For the brand new album, the group moved away from their futuristic, glitchy sound and embraced historical past with a 10-track album revisiting the glory days of drum & bass and breaks. Clearly, there are nonetheless many, many artists who signify and push these genres ahead as their foremost sound, and The Glitch Mob aren’t making an attempt to encroach in anybody’s area. They’re simply placing their spin on a basic sound.

Actuality is malleable. It adjustments naturally from perspective to perspective, and the trio clearly felt like their actuality was beneath assault, like many people did, over the previous couple of years.

Take heed to Ctrl Alt Actuality beneath.