27th
September
2010
A mist of despair hangs above all of this
Assassins is a displacement from the West German brutalism and Cold War bleakness – industrial wastelands and all – that’s usually associated with low key synthesisers and half buried hyperactive drum machines (muted by their very energetic nature). Here the aural aesthetic is tied to the story of the Hashshashin, the Nizai Ismailis tarred by…