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Earthling
Rock · 1997 · 22 tracks · 2h 4m

Earthling

A high-velocity collision of 90s jungle breakbeats and industrial rock. Aggressive, digital, and restless, it captures the frantic pulse of the pre-millennium city.

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Club culture immersion

Hyper-kinetic drum and bass breakbeats and abrasive industrial textures collide in a high-octane digital assault. This lean, self-produced effort trades the sprawling narrative of the recent past for a bright, aggressive immediacy, plugging a veteran voice directly into the frantic, sampler-driven pulse of late-nineties underground club culture.

Earthling · vs · David Bowie
Drum Machine+3.9σ

A frantic reliance on the synthetic snap of the drum machine replaces traditional percussion, driving the record's cybernetic pulse with a relentless, mechanical velocity.

Tracklist · 22 Tracks · 2h 4m
01
Little Wonder (censored video edit)
4:09
01
Little Wonder
6:02
02
Little Wonder (Junior Vasquez club mix)
8:18
02
Looking for Satellites
5:21
03
Little Wonder (Danny Saber dance mix)
5:33
03
Battle for Britain (The Letter)
4:49
04
Seven Years in Tibet (Mandarin version)
4:00
04
Seven Years in Tibet
6:22
05
Dead Man Walking (Moby mix 1)
7:33
05
Dead Man Walking
6:50
06
Dead Man Walking (Moby mix 2)
5:27
06
Telling Lies
4:50
07
The Last Thing You Should Do
4:58
07
Telling Lies (Feelgood mix)
5:09
08
Telling Lies (Paradox mix by a Guy Called Gerald)
5:10
08
I’m Afraid of Americans
5:00
09
Law (Earthlings on Fire)
4:49
09
I’m Afraid of Americans
5:13
10
I’m Afraid of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 mix)
5:30
11
I’m Afraid of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 clean edit)
4:14
12
V‐2 Schneider
7:16
13
Pallas Athena
8:19
Moments Worth Waiting For
01Little WonderThe frantic, high-speed breakbeats on 'Little Wonder' establish a relentless jungle rhythm that underpins the track's distorted guitar work.
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Reviews
Critic Consensus

The album divided reviewers, with some warmly admiring its spirited energy and the adventurous integration of contemporary industrial and drum-and-bass textures into the songwriting. However, other critics faulted the electronic production as derivative, feeling that the modern rhythms were merely layered on top of conventional song structures rather than fully integrated.

Select1/ 5 stars
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Rolling Stone3.5/ 5 stars
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The Philadelphia Inquirer3/ 4 stars
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Pitchfork8.0/ 10
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NME6/ 10
The Guardian3/ 4 stars
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Chicago Tribune2.5/ 4 stars
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