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It’s throwback time, and this week I’m revisiting a project close to my heart: The Product by Black Light Mutants, originally released in 2017.
I’ve shared bits from this one before, but thought I’d dig a little deeper and show some of the promo artwork—done in that dystopian digital photo-composite style I was really into at the time. Think fractured cityscapes, industrial decay, warped perspective and a whole lot of texture. Chaos, but intentional.
Back in 2017, I co-created this release with the anarchopunk/electronic band Black Light Mutants, writing music, lyrics, vocals, and also handling all the artwork and promotional design. This was The Product.
The whole aesthetic was built to feel like a fever-dream of industrial collapse—survivors trudging through the wreckage of a broken system, a city feeding on itself. The music and visuals were our way of responding to everything we felt was rotting from the inside out: politics, media, commodification, control.
Produced in Manchester, it was glitch-heavy noise meets punk grit—plus all the weird genre hybrids we were experimenting with at the time. The cover art? That was a visual extension of the same rage. Poisoned skies. Collapsing structures. Wires like veins. Everything on the brink.
This was a total DIY production—raw, honest, and snarling. Here’s to remembering that energy.