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Front Line Assembly
Released 1988

First Reprisal
05:22
556 plays

Testimony
05:27
555 plays

Inside Out
04:16
533 plays

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- Inside Out
- 04:16
- 533 plays

- 1
- First Reprisal
- 05:22
- 556 plays

- 3
- Consequence
- 05:38
- 432 plays

- 4
- Burnt Soul
- 02:44
- 413 plays

- 5
- Testimony
- 05:27
- 555 plays

- 6
- Landslide
- 04:46
- 393 plays

- 7
- Terminal Power
- 05:50
- 419 plays

- 8
- Malignant Fracture
- 04:16
- 354 plays

- 9
- Eastern Voices
- 05:28
- 363 plays

- 9
- Resistance
- 04:09
- 361 plays

- 10
- Sustain Upright
- 05:08
- 332 plays

- 12
- No Tomorrow
- 04:46
- 359 plays

- 12
- And They Shall Bow
- 04:32
- 354 plays

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album review

Front Line Assembly's second album (the second of three released in three months in late '87 and early '88) shows the prolific Vancouver-based duo at the peak of their early style, which is basically that of a Canadian Cabaret Voltaire. Less aggressive and sample-based than their compatriots Skinny Puppy (which songwriter Bill Leeb used to be a member of; the Pup's Dave Ogilvie co-produced State of Mind), Front Line Assembly married doomy electronic keyboards and percussion to a live-sounding bass and drum whomp, creating a more purely dance-oriented sound. The instruments are up front, and the supposedly menacing found-sound vocal samples are mixed well to the rear, which is basically the only difference between songs like the throbbing "Inside Out" and mid-period Cabaret Voltaire albums like Micro-Phonies. State of Mind is danceable and occasionally sonically intriguing, but it's also a little too plainly derivative to be taken entirely seriously. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide