Karma gets you in the end. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Pride comes before a fall. These are all sentiments that swirl at the heart of the songs that make up Luci Ferrum’s latest EP, Post Mortem Invictus. Perhaps not always directly spoken, but there is always a sense that those who used you for their own gains will get what’s coming to them. (Although, my conclusion after reading between these lines might say more about me than her!)
But as opener, “Funny Guy” comes into earshot on a spacious industrial groove, the theme of someone getting their due is totally relatable. The dynamics ebb and flow from almost unadorned dancefloor beats to ornate, metallic industrial onslaughts, driving the point home.
“Hope for the Rope” is built on anticipation and atmosphere, a looping rhythm pulsing and propelling its way through a futuristic soundscape, and “Push and Pull” lyrically examines emotional deadlock whilst blending echoes of the early synth scene with almost oriental interludes.
The gnashing, gnawing, gnarly waves of the hardwired cyber-sonics that drive the claustrophobic, clashing “Custom Made” are also the ideal musical metaphor for the complexities and confusion that can lead to psychological self-mutilation and the unravelling of the mind.
“Cycle Breaker” rounds things off, a blend of future-dance and electro-beats, at times charging, at others re-charging, as it examines the cycles we can inherit from our surroundings, our families, our past, and muses on the possibility of breaking them.
It isn’t hard to identify the various building blocks that go into making this album – from post-punk rock to industrial dance, darkwave groove to electro soundscaping, from the artistic to the avant-garde – but, as is always the case with forward-thinking music, it is how all those elements are woven together that makes Post Mortem Invictus something totally new, refreshing, and, dare I say it, important.
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