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Proletarian Poetry is an EBM and synthpop combo act hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden. This solo project takes inspiration from his life in the 90s, where his production techniques were limited by both budget and technology. His main goal is to create something that sounds somewhat old, somewhat new; retro in other words while tackling social issues such as the climate crisis, war and peace, so on and so forth. The result has been a string of thematic singles and EPs that pertain to one another in both content and artwork that began around February of 2024 with ‘Demonize Dehumanize’. This has led to his most recent single ‘Panic and Fear’.
The best way I can describe Proletarian Poetry is by using the word safe. Safe in the sense that what I said above about EBM mixing with synthpop is scarily accurate. EBM basslines and synthpop electronics combine in a bit of a raw tone echoing his mission to make retro-futuristic sounds. The vocals are subpar as per normal in 90% of industrial releases but they aren’t intolerable, either; just the standard spoken word drivel masquerading as singing.
This is the case of where I’ve heard better, but I’ve heard worse, and this lies somewhere in the middle.
