But What Time Is It Really?

by Cabaret Voltaire

But What Time Is It Really? cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 April 2026
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 4:34
  • Community rating: 4.14/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Captured during a series of rare 2020s performances, this live document showcases the project鈥檚 later shift toward purely electronic, multi-layered improvisation. Richard H. Kirk鈥檚 final modular synth explorations are at the forefront, utilizing found-sound samples and driving 4/4 industrial beats. The recording emphasizes a state of perpetual flux, rejecting the nostalgia typical of legacy industrial acts.

Genres

Descriptors: Hypnotic, Mechanized, Surveillance-themed, Rhythmic, industrial, percussive, minimal, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. 24-24
  2. Animation
  3. Why Kill Time (When You Can Kill Yourself)
  4. Tinsley Viaduct
  5. The Set-Up
  6. Landslide
  7. Crackdown
  8. Spies In The Wires
  9. Just Fascination
  10. Taxi Music
  11. Yashar
  12. Sex Money Freaks
  13. Easy Life
  14. Do Right
  15. Nag Nag Nag
  16. Sensoria

Credits

  • Cabaret Voltaire - primary artist
  • Benge - arranged by, producer [produced by], engineer [engineered by], mixed by, keyboards [original rehearsals at memetune studios], electronic drums [original rehearsals at memetune studios]
  • Stephen Mallinder - arranged by, producer [produced by], vocals, bass, keyboards, samples, written-by
  • Dan Conway - artwork [album artwork by]
  • Paul Burgess - artwork [album artwork by]
  • Oliver Harrap - electronic drums [electronic percussion]
  • Eric Random - keyboards, guitar
  • James Trevascus - mastered by
  • Chris Watson - organ, synth [modular synths], samples, field recording, written-by
  • Joe Peat - recorded by [live recording by]
  • Richard H. Kirk - written-by

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