J. Blacker, architect of ESA, offers his new album, Sounds For Your Happiness, as the much anticipated follow up to Designer Carnage, which was released in 2022. Two singles have already been released from the album during 2024, those being the mid-paced Dark Techno power of Join Our Hands and the Industrial Metal Gabber insanity of Rats Come Together.
Sounds for Your Happiness is yet another milestone in the creative universe of ESA. Striking and thought-provoking visuals, enormous electronics and powerful messages are always expected from an ESA release and Sounds for Your Happiness does not disappoint with any of these ingredients.
With this album, J Blacker paints ESA as a sinister technology company, with the musical structures from the album, utilised to create an emotional response from its listeners, which is transferred as energy to run the simulation we all live in. Its a nod to shows and films such as ‘Severance’ and ‘Soylent Green’.
Musically, “Sounds for your Happiness” is a bleak and furious slab of electronic meat. With little respite in its 75minute run time. A journey of EBM/Industrial/Black Metal/Dark Ambient/Powernoise/Punk/Techno and Goa, the album is as ambitious as it is exhilarating, and genres merge seamlessly into an energetic free-fall of sonic chaos.
This week, ESA spoke to Dave Griffiths about the new album:
