metalynx
[#] Money (2025)
20,000 PIXEL WIDE ALBUM ART??????????
Reviewed July 21, 2025
Don't ask me what's so Christian Rock about this album—other than, of course, the generosity of newcomer metalynx (not to be confused with MP3.com superstars mtlx) to share it with me, courtesy of a floppy disk taped to a rock through my window. (Less generous having to pay for the window myself, but.) Yes, this entire album fits on a floppy thanks to its crisp 8kbps bitrate, making it my first low-bit record in a while, and the murkiest! I'm pretty sure it's a Statement, another layer on the messaging lasagna (and he loves him a good lasaga) that Money is. This album defies you to do the obvious thing. Dance floor bangers like "Burgerham Palac" fluctuate in speed at will. Tracks stop before they start, but their icy electronic building blocks go on in your head forever. This album is as clear a statement as a rock through a window.
Let's go down the list. The ironic title, given it's for free. The splitting of what any other artist would make one track, "Town" into "Jungle" into "Town Hour", representing the way media gets cut into pieces and sold back to us at increasing markup. Even the reappearance of the bwongy mood piece "Below Zero" in a radio-ready mix at the end, after the dull digital cicada storm of the server room that represents our online lifestyles, the remixing and polishing for mass consumption that happens to the brightest and most unconventional ideas we've got. I cannot say what metalynx will do next, but I do know you'd have to be stupidly tuned out not to notice it.
| Essential: | "Djdjdjdjdjd", "Below Zero", "Town" |
|---|---|
| Quintessential: | "Am" |
| Non-Essential: | "Credits" |
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