Autumns has long existed at the jagged edge of club music, taking the ghosts of post-punk and industrial and dragging them into the basement. On A Dead Influence, his first release for Honey Trap, the Irish producer strips the sound to its barest impulses—rattling drum machines, serrated synths, and a sneer that never lets up. The result is mutant body music that owes as much to Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire as it does to the darker corners of contemporary EBM.
Across six originals, Autumns stitches together a record that is both caustic and compulsive. Tracks like “The Unfortunate Touch” and “Don’t Be a Rat (I Know You Will)” grind with deadpan menace, while “Paid Engagement” and “Banged Alive” push his hardware into overdrive, balancing raw noise with sly rhythmic hooks. This is music designed less for smooth transitions than for confrontation—dance as abrasion, movement as release.