The Ground Below

In the brief time they've been around, Chicago industrial trio Civic Center has dropped five collections of seething electronic music, but it's all led up to their debut LP The Ground Below in which they take the most thrilling aspects of their creative process, up the production value, and add a slight pop sensibility. 'Musically we're constantly striving to find the harmony and disharmony between electronic and organic elements,' explains frontman Jack Brockman, 'trying to inject something unusual into industrial.' Civic Center maintains a firm hold in the industrial tradition, and their music may be dark, but it isn't nihilistic. On The Ground Below, they still exist in the shadows, but the shadows have never looked more alluring.