Aversion.com Dead Plans The Bodies Obtained With last year's From the Top of My Tree (review) (Finding You Attractive), The Bodies Obtained opened up a deep, deep drawer of vinyl pulled from across the experimental-rock spectrum and took little bits of each out for a test drive. On Dead Plans, the band's sound is equally timeless, referencing Einstürzende Neubauten, Joy Division, King Crimson and Cabaret Voltaire, but this time around, that pile of vinyl's been left in the summer sunshine to melt, jellify and run together. All the elements are there, theoretically, but you're going to need a spectrometer and a flame to really be able to see each one of them. Where its predecessor strove to be a timeless album because of its decades-spanning upbringing, Dead Plans takes a different route. Instead of timeless, it's out of time. While still grisly and dark, The Bodies Obtained are no longer content to scrounge out of their record collections, even if they're a lot cooler than yours. They've officially digested those records, chewed them up, swallowed them and are ready with their own ideas. Dead Plans comes across as either an album that's remarkably removed from rock's temporal continuum or remarkably cutting-edge and fresh. Only time can tell if the band's leading the pack or running off on its own lovable tangent. Either way, it doesn't change the makeup of this album. Cemented squarely in sinister synth-pop, the band bends and twists in a breeze only felt by the band. "