The broad and gloomy realm of post-punk is the subject of the day on this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From its origins shared with goth and industrial, through the mainstream revival of it in the early aughts, up to the present groundswell in underground post-punk, the Senior Staff are hailing the best and jeering the worst of a nebulous, but often sombre style.

The Senior Staff talk are talking about a pair of hybrid records on this week's episode: the dance/rhythmic noise punch of Memmaker's "How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising" and the futurepop/italodisco confectionary of Syrian's "Death Of A Sun". Also, on a more sombre note, they discuss remembrances of Jeremy Inkel of Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly after his tragic and all too early passing.

On this episode of We Have a Technical we welcome returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic. We're always keen to catch up with the Man Who Couldn't Stop about what he's up to, and in this instance we were super interested to hear about what went into his terrific new album "American Carrion". We talk politics, anger, Caustic's place in industrial and a little about hot new beat project Klack, along with news about Mechanismus Festival and the dissolution of Tactical Sekt, all this week on We Have a Technical, the idieyoudie.com podcast!

On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're discussing the first LP by legendary Belgian dark electro pioneers The Klinik. "Sabotage", the only record to feature the four person line-up of the band is instructive, in that it threads the origins of the group in the wave scene with distinctly industrial aesthetics. We discuss both how it foreshadows The Klinik's later work, and what is specifically unique about them at this early juncture. All this month on We Have a Commentary, an I Die: You Die bonus podcast.

We talk post-2000 Kirlian Camera on the second 2018 episode of We Have a Technical! Yes, Bruce and Alex chew over what exactly Elena brought to the table and how it changed KC, along with Angelo's enduring lyrical themes and how regal and magesterial the band has become over their last four albums. Where else are you gonna find that kind of discussion?

Back in action, the Senior Staff return from the holidays refreshed and ready to talk about the releases which lie just ahead in the early months of 2018, plus some family friendly faves they like to spin around the holidays. It's 2018, and I Die: You Die's champing at the bit!

Our annual off-topic podcast lands with a resounding thud, as the Senior Staff chatter endlessly about working at bars, Rupaul's Drag Race, pro-wrestling and more! Yes, you'll thrill to lengthy anecdotes that go nowhere and hideously uncomfortable recollections of Dean Koontz novels as Bruce and Alex finish their year in a haze of nonsense with none of the incisive commentary or trenchant insight you've come to expect. Face it tigers, you just hit the jackpot!

On this very special (?!) double length We Have a Commentary Bruce and Alex tackle "Random", 1997's hit and miss tribute to Gary Numan. You ever wonder what our thoughts are on bands as diverse as The Rentals, EMF, Jesus Jones and The Orb are? Find out as we struggle for two hours to make sense of electronica, the British music press and the enduring influence of Uncle Gary.

The capper on our year end coverage is here, as our two tired hosts give a few final thoughts on our favourite albums of 2017, talk some honourable mentions and also discuss recent nonsense with Patreon. Do you like episodes heavily edited because we made a lot of mistakes because we were tired and drunk? Then this is the episode of We Have a Technical, the idieyoudie.com podcast for you! Giddy up!

The Senior Staff sit down with Danish-Canadian synth artist Sally Dige to talk about life in Berlin and the astonishingly dense compositional process underlying her excellent new record "Holding On". There's some consideration of the function and execution of writing about records to boot as we head towards our Year End coverage at I Die: You Die.