![[Album Review] Excision – X Rated](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3735779_lg.jpg)
Excision's trademark style of insane, intense, in-your-face dubstep has made him one of the biggest names in the bass heavy electronic scene. To be honest, before I listened to this new album I thought that the majority of Excision's work was a little too crazy to be a part of my usual set, reserving his most popular songs (Swagga, for instance) only for times when I'm feeling the dirtiest of the dirty. X-Rated, while still maintaining Excision's heavy, brutal style, has influences from all over the electronic music scene, making the album a much more accessible entry into Excision's body [...]
The appropriately titled first full-length studio album by dubstep producer Excision released today on the Mau5trap label. "X Rated" redefines the filthiest genre in the EDM world through a handful of inventive sound collaborations. Datsik, Downlink, Skism, and Messinian team up with Excision on various tracks creating tracks that hit like thousands of splintering blades and shrapnel amplified by heavy, omnipotent bass. Excision has made incredible leaps and bounds in terms of his overall production skills. In this album he's able, from track to track, to pursue his unique & distinct robotic sounds with precise cleanliness. In pure Mau5trap form, [...]