Industrial music faux pas number one: do not use samples from The Matrix, Robocop, X-Files or Fifth Element in your songs. Accessory not only break this edict, but inspire a new amendment by mentioning in the liner notes that they did sample these movies during the making of Forever and Beyond. After reading this, you'll cross your fingers and hope the duo used them in a creative fashion. Nope. Their music is middling EBM-industrial stuff -- dance beats, pulsing basslines, arpeggiating synths up the ass, programmer/vocalist Dirk Steyer's processed vocals and disjunct lyrics (i.e. "Purple Bottles Blow / fragrance in the air / instructions promise feeling / but the doll doesn't care"), the aforementioned movie dialogue and a few German porn samples, sewn together to create a sound that should have been retired years ago. If you feel the need to hear this sort of material, check out the sound's pioneers instead. Their work is superior, as any pre-1988 Skinny Puppy album will attest. For example, "Bad Conditions" follows the established template to the last. After the "mysterious" intro (cross-panned samples from Sphere), Accessory plugs in a bass drum/bass synth section, repeats it with vocals ("Intelligent lights descending from apes / removed themselves from primal shapes") and, as anticipated from a mile away, adds a snare and a bit more "oomph" during the chorus ("The Crown of Creation discovered the time / the Crown of Creation invented the line"). This organization is fine; if the band would simply tweak and filter sounds, change up the vocal effects or reverse a bass drum here and there, it would be palatable. Alas, Accessory bring nothing new to the table -- they serve up the same shit as everyone else.

There's simply nothing unique or noteworthy about Forever and Beyond -- no hook to snare a prospective fan, no obvious draw for genre obsessives. Accessory is going through the motions, and there's no reason for you to listen to them do it.