Minimum Sentence returns with “A Beginner’s Guide to Modern Bioethics”, an eight-track dive into some of the most pressing ethical questions in modern medicine and technology. The album explores the subjects of voluntary sale of organs, assisted dying, biological and legal definitions of death, pharmacological enhancements, the rights of non-sentient organisms, human cloning, allocation of scarce medical resources and cryonics.

The album is an eclectic fusion of approaches – here, in equal measure, one will find gritty low frequencies of death industrial, piercing distortion of industrial noise, and psychedelic pulsing rhythms reminiscent of the 1980s UK experimental electronics scene, with a mix of vocals and samples of found media recordings.

Deep but not pretentious, serious but with a pinch of dark humour, “A Beginner’s Guide to Modern Bioethics” doesn’t offer answers – in fact, it doesn’t even bother asking questions – but it skilfully captures the tension between progress and consequence, delivering an intense and stimulating listen.“