After a half-dozen full-lengths and a clutch of EPs and live releases, plus one miraculously injury-free van crash in the French countryside, EXEK has arrived. The seventh studio offering from the Melbourne-based sextet, Prove the Mountains Move, comes courtesy of Brooklyn’s DFA Records, which has been fusing together rock and electronic music since the halcyon days of flagship act LCD Soundsystem.
First emerging as acolytes of Public Image Ltd.’s immortal Metal Box (aka Second Edition), EXEK has subsequently been delivering dubbed-out death-disco the equal of paragons such as The Rapture and Anika. Each EXEK album finds the group adding and subtracting elements to their core sound; Prove the Mountains Move finds…