Y'know it's funny that his lyrics in the Sound did have a great sense of hope to them, which isn't evident here. "Save Our Souls" is the most melodic but still pretty grim even by Borland's usual standards. "The definition of honor is that hole in the side of your head." "In Bits" just makes me think that's what the vast emptyness of extreme alienation must be like, with that devastating attack of feedback concluding it. The opener "Definition Of Honor" is an incendiary anti-war song that gives you images of Goya or Hieronymus Bosch. Heavy-metallish guitars, Suicide-style machine rhythm and ugly, grayish tones from an ARP synth sums up what you get here. World Of Rubber has to be the grimmest album Borland ever involved himself in. The debut ep "Courts Or Wars" was minimalist punk with a drum machine whereas the later "State Of Emergency" ep was pure discordant noise. Second Layer was an experimental project inbetween Borland's previous punk band the Outsiders and the formation of the Sound later. Well I might as well review another record of Adrian Borland's.
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