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Blanck Mass, Benjamin John Power's solo project, half of Fuck Buttons, is back in Portugal and has a confirmed stop at Rivoli’s Understage on February 14th, for the presentation of “Animated Violence Mild’. Released in 2019 via Sacred Bones, “Animated Violence Mild’ is, in the words of the British musician and producer, his most concise, direct and honest work to date. Loaded with bold experimentation, rhythmic intensity, explosive melodies and daring ferocity, the album is an amalgam of extreme emotions, which oscillate between the expression of existential fear and the beauty close to transcendence. A grief record, which arises from the reflection concerning grief, not only personally but also in a more global sense, of all of us, as a species, it is an unbridled anti-consumerism treaty, a declared criticism to humanity's self-inflicted fall, betrayal of the best instincts of our nature and the future of our own world. And like the sadness it communicates there, the eight tracks that comprise it are not at all linear, surprising the listener at every moment, among stylistic combinations so distinct and well executed that effortlessly go well beyond all the influences that shamelessly we recognize in him, becoming a moment not so much of exasperation but of pure catharsis.