Album Notes

In the spring of 2010, Revolutionary Cells began a series of recording sessions that would become the Barium/Buenos Aires album, a two-part, ten-song collection of songs ranging from spacious ambient tracks driven by tremolo guitar, insistent synthesizers and hypnotic bass lines to propulsive black metal/noise rock, to post punk grooves augmented with kraut rock-style rhythms, to machine-like marches, to dissonant soundscapes. Thematically, Barium/Buenos Aires draws inspiration from Cold War geopolitics, the history of 1970s terrorist organizations, the speculative literature of J.G. Ballard and Jorge Luis Borges, urban decay and science run amok—this reflects their backgrounds in biology and the humanities. The overall mood of the recording is laid back paranoia.