-196C is the band's first U.S. album, drawingtogether two previous releases. Many of these songsare in the traditionally sparse industrial-dance vein(a la Front 242) but they truly excel when they moveoutside this framework. "Dream Destructor" and"Synthesis" are slower sinuous and infinitely morethreatening. There is a sense of something evilstalking you in the dark. "Visage de Plastique" withits conventional Ultravox feel is unintentionallysensual - not industrial, but hard-edged synth-pop.But the best is "Frozen Masses" , a dance piece filledwith slowly moving synthetic chords, a stronglyKraftwerkian theme and computerized voices.