Album Review: Death Mask by Death in Vegas

Richard Fearless returns with an intoxicating mix of an album where darker realisations and hedonistic beats compete for the same headspace Music for machines does not have to be calculated or even pre-meditated. Just ask Richard Fearless, whose Death In Vegas project returns for the first time in ten years. Where once he was part of the big beat explosion in the mid-1990s, Fearless is now very much ploughing his own furrow.

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Electronic outfit Death in Vegas have always been chameleon-like. During the 90s and early 2000s, when dance and indie briefly became symbiotic, they embraced it and sometimes overstepped the mark. 2002's 'Scorpio Rising' brought the disparate and some might say irreconcilable worlds of Kenneth Anger and Liam Gallagher together for a dalliance with the pop charts that looks increasingly naff with every passing year, and so it's perhaps unsurprising that even as the latter prepares to play the most hyped gigs of a generation, his nibs has been left off the promotional bumf altogether.

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