For its first release, the nascent US label Signifier offers a new home to France's Ex_Tension, whose follow-up to their M-Tronic-released 2009 debut is another collection of dark tunes somewhere between instrumental, modern EBM and industrial-ized electronica. Mostly clear-sounding, at times hard and dancefloor-oriented but not overdoing the aggressive side, "Freedom" is something which fits somewhere between the calmer proponents of dark electronica (Stendeck, Ab Ovo...) and more industrial-club oriented acts (This Morn Omina and other trance-inspired acts). Interesting and filling a nice niche for fans of the aforementioned acts