Reset

Now with their teenage years most assuredly behind them, Atari Teenage Riot are back with a fifth studio album. The band - founded by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias and Carl Crack way back in 1992 when the internet was just an academic curiosity and the members of Anonymous were in short pants - continue to be an enigmatic, confounding mass of sloganeering cyberpunk and activist angst. After a difficult and uncertain period in the musical wilderness, marked by the death of Crack and the departure of Elias, 2010's Is This Hyperreal? was a furious, impatient, cathartic detonation that split critics and reintroduced ATR to the world of the digital quotidian. Now, from the depths of that renascent fissure, comes Reset. It's a record with an inquisitive spirit and a strong sonic coherence, and one that will no doubt delight fans but baffle and frustrate others in equal measure.