--- release: artist....: cut.rate.box album.....: Luxury anxiety type......: EP source....: WEB/MP3 tracks....: 4 label.....: Alfa Matrix store date: 2025-09-19 catalogue#: NONE encoder...: LAME3.99r quality...: 320 kbps / 44100Hz / Joint stereo URL.......: https://open.qobuz.com/album/mv430p1rcvwfa genre.....: Electronic genres....: - synthpop - pop - industrial - futurepop - electropop - electro - ebm - dark pop - dark electro - alternative - Brussel similar...: - The Parallel Project - Aghast View - Fictional - din_fiv - Negative Format artist links : discogs : https://www.discogs.com/artist/62521 last.fm : https://www.last.fm/music/cut.rate.box myspace : https://myspace.com/cutratebox official homepage: http://www.cutratebox.com/ label links : bandcamp : https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/ discogs : https://www.discogs.com/label/8852 last.fm : https://www.last.fm/label/Alfa+Matrix myspace : https://myspace.com/alfamatrix official site : http://www.alfa-matrix.com/ beatport : https://www.beatport.com/label/alfa-matrix/5055 facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Alfa.Matrix soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/alfa-matrix wikidata : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173653 release links: bandcamp : https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/luxury-anxiety-ep tracklist.: - [ 01. Fireshine 03:53.97 ] - [ 02. Isticism 04:33.03 ] - [ 03. Reel Life 03:35.41 ] - [ 04. Outrageless 04:42.26 ] comment...: | After two decades of silence, CUT.RATE.BOX broke the static in June 2025 with the striking comeback single and video clip ΓÇ£Reel LifeΓÇ¥ - a manifesto for the digitally disillusioned and an instant future-pop/EBM club hit. Now, the visionary electronic project founded by G. Wygonik in 1989 delivers its full conceptual statement with ΓÇ£Luxury AnxietyΓÇ¥, a four-part operetta for the modern age.ΓÇ£Luxury AnxietyΓÇ¥ channels collapse, resignation, anger, ambivalence, and sorrow into a tense and emotional journey where techno-pop hooks clash with searing electronic punk, and synthpop sensibilities refract through a cold, modern lens. Drawing on influences like CABARET VOLTAIRE, WIRE, TONES ON TAIL and BRIAN ENO, Wygonik sculpts a dense, synthetic soundtrack for a world fraying at the seams. Across its four interconnected tracks, the EP flows from the restless urge to burn everything down, to the hypnotic spell of alt-fact language, through the curated addiction and unraveling explored on ΓÇ£Reel LifeΓÇ¥, and finally into a mournful yet faintly hopeful elegy for lost civility.Accompanied by a hyper-cut generative video for ΓÇ£IsticismΓÇ¥, the EP expands the thematic and sonic universe hinted at in ΓÇ£Reel LifeΓÇ¥. Where past CUT.RATE.BOX classics like ΓÇ£New ReligionΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£DataseedΓÇ¥ warned of a coming storm, ΓÇ£Luxury AnxietyΓÇ¥ stares directly into the wreckage of the now, finding both rage and beauty there.Highly recommended for fans of cutting-edge melodic electronics with an edge, in the vein of HAUJOBB, COVENANT, ASSEMBLAGE 23 and VNV NATION.This is not a nostalgic comeback.ItΓÇÖs a reawakening.CUT.RATE.BOX is broadcasting again. biography.: | cut.rate.box took shape in Florida and has since existed in Chicago, North Carolina, and currently, New Orleans. They take influence from many diverse sources - from the powerful atmospheres of Coil to the dancefloor energy of Front242 - yet all the while mutating and advancing towards an expanding style of flowing energy and mature lyrical concept. cut.rate.box consists of g.wygonik and clint sand. Both share songwriting, orchestration, production, concept and graphic design, while live g. Read more on Last.fm