The Body's 2019 release Remixed included a chest-rattling techno rework of the song "Adamah," which was done by AJ Wilson, a Los Angeles-based artist who goes by the name OAA. Three years later, a full collaboration between the Body and OAA appeared, and it's an entirely different beast than the previous remix, which was filled with looped, mangled voices set to four-on-the-floor beats. Enemy of Love is much closer to the Body's usual wheelhouse, with most of the songs featuring slow, lurching rhythms and piercing shrieks, but this album has slightly more of an electronic crunch to it, making it a logical continuation of the death industrial sound of 2021's I've Seen All I Need to See. An undercurrent of suspenseful electronic pulsations runs through the opener "Devalued," pounded into dust by bludgeoning drums and brain-numbing distortion. The abrasive yet spacious "Pseudocyesis" approaches a fusion of dub and black metal, with choppy edits adding to the song's disorienting feel. This track and others like "Fortified Tower" incorporate jittering electronic percussion sequences that suggest the forward momentum of techno without fully committing to the style -- "Miserable Freedom" comes closest to breaking out into a 4/4 stomp, but it never arrives. "Barren of Joy" is the album's outlier, with raw synth riffs sporadically slashing through a landfill of guitar sludge and truly stomach-turning growling by Full of Hell's Dylan Walker. There's barely any drums until the second half of the song, and when they do arrive, they're diced into stuttering fits. "Ignorant Messiah" shoots a few rays of laser gun synth into a churning rhythm, and "Docile Gift" revisits the experimentation with trap-style drum programming on previous Body records like 2016's No One Deserves Happiness. Unlike the earlier remix, Enemy of Love ends up sounding far more like a Body album than one of OAA's solo releases, but it manages to add a different shade of postindustrial dread to the group's usual sound. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi

1		Devalued
2		Pseudocyesis
3		Hired Regard
4		Fortified Tower
5		Obsessed Luxury
6		Conspiracy Privilege
7		Barren of Joy
8		Miserable Freedom
9		Ignorant Messiah
10		Docile Gift

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