“Illuminator” b/w ”Tastes Metallic” is the debut single from General Labor. General Labor is the Memphis-based project of Corbin Linebarier. It’s the sound of electronic music done right. Think Robert Rental, early Destruction Unit, and fellow Memphians Optic Sink and Cloudland Canyon (who Linebarier also performs with). In addition to playing shows around Memphis, General Labor scored the soundtrack to the silent-animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), at Memphis’ Crosstown Theater. 

This single spins at 33 1/3 and is limited to 300 copies.    

Synth punk/post-punk pioneers GENERAL LABOR recently released these two tracks on a 45, and you need to hear them. “Illuminator” is a noisy, mid-paced song with strange harmonic and electronic drum noises that seem to come out of nowhere and dissolve just as rapidly, and while “Tastes Metallic” is less noisy, it is equally as enticing with its shifting instrumentation. The two songs form an intense emotional juxtaposition, with the former being pensive and tense and the latter being almost dreamy and relaxing. If you like things like SUICIDE or A FRAMES, then you’ll most assuredly be into this.
-Seth McBurney, Maximum Rocknroll