A Dead Influence

Autumns has long existed at the jagged edge of club music, taking the ghosts of post-punk and industrial and dragging them into the basement. On A Dead Influence, his first release for Honey Trap, the Irish producer strips the sound to its barest impulses—rattling drum machines, serrated synths, and a sneer that never lets up. The result is mutant body music that owes as much to Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire as it does to the darker corners of contemporary EBM.

Across six originals, Autumns stitches together a record that is both caustic and compulsive. Tracks like “The Unfortunate Touch” and “Don’t Be a Rat (I Know You Will)” grind with deadpan menace, while “Paid Engagement” and “Banged Alive” push his hardware into overdrive, balancing raw noise with sly rhythmic hooks. This is music designed less for smooth transitions than for confrontation—dance as abrasion, movement as release.

Adding further dimension are two remixes from trusted allies in the Honey Trap orbit. Pleaser (responsible for the label’s debut Honey Trap 01) delivers a twang-ridden rework of “Unfortunate Touch,” while aka-Sol & FNG flip “Why Don’t You Fuck Off and Die” into a scorched-earth rebirth, amplifying its bile into something ecstatic. Together, the originals and remixes trace a full circle of Honey Trap’s ethos: raw, unapologetic, and built for the floor.

Released on Halloween 2025, A Dead Influence arrives digitally and on cassette, extending the tactile spirit of Honey Trap’s catalog. It’s not just a nod to Autumns’ influences—it’s a reminder of how vital and unruly those sounds can still be when dragged into the present.
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released October 31, 2025

written, produced, and mixed by Autumns.
remixes by Pleaser, aka-Sol & PNG
design & cassette layout by Sarah Lim
words by Alexandra Clear