After a handful of records and a full length album on Flint Glass's Brume Records, Belgium's Fractional offers a new CD, this time on Tympanik. The choice of a label is pertinent: while Fractional has been occasionally labeled as a drum'n'bass or breakcore act, it is really his industrial side that comes first and foremost on "Blood". Oscillating between d'n'b breaks, very digital-sounding post-Skinny Puppy influences, rave pads and dark atmospheres, this new album is a rather energetic ride between mid-tempo tracks and club-oriented one. Quite lush, dark and very fitting on Tympanik, in my opinion.