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Robots In Love — “Cease and Desist”
Cease and Desist - Single · Released 2026-09-25
Consensus notes: Post-Punk.com (Sep 25 2026, Alice Teeple): New Zealand dark electronic duo Robots In Love (vocalist-producer Elenor Rayner + drummer-producer Alex Burchell) — second single from upcoming album OVERRIDE; limerence/obsession thesis ("limerence closes every door"); hardcore guitar licks pressed against industrial metal without Ministry cosplay; SINE bruising pressure, latter-day Gary Numan mechanical weight, HEALTH / Nine Inch Nails / Sirus / V.A.S.T. synth architecture; guitarist Henry Flynn Wall joins; video by Lichen Sorrel + Rayner (rain-soaked sideways reality). iTunes verified 2026-09-25 (Industrial), trackId 6802828096, ~4:21.
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Staff takes on Robots In Love — “Cease and Desist” land warm-to-blunt (about 7.5/10 across 2 reviews; range 7.0–8.0). Voices in this stack: Jules Okada, Rio Hale. Web consensus notes: Post-Punk.com (Sep 25 2026): NZ dark-electronic OVERRIDE single; limerence as bolted-shut desire; heavy riffs + cinematic synths + epic chorus; rain-soaked video. iTunes verified 2026-09-25. Staff lean — playlist-friendly industrial-pop read from Jules, shorter skeptical take from Rio on chorus size vs verse intimacy.
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Verdict: Limerence industrial-pop — chorus earns the concrete shout.
this one belongs next to HEALTH and late-night Numan — dark electronic rock that still wants a chorus you can shout in a car.
robots in love (elenor rayner + alex burchell) build cease and desist around limerence, that obsession that bolts every exit shut. the riffs land hard without tipping into ministry cosplay, and the synth stack has real cinematic width. henry flynn wall’s guitar gives the single a physical edge the electronics alone wouldn’t carry.
i keep coming back to the chorus size: it feels like shouting through concrete while the verses stay privately humiliating, which is exactly the emotional geometry the lyric is chasing. rayner’s delivery sits inside the mess instead of hovering above it.
playlist note: stack it between a boy harsher club cut and a nine inch nails deep cut if you want the obsession arc to hold. 8.0/10 — credible OVERRIDE single with a hook that earns its volume.
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@nightshift_queue
Sep 27, 2026
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jules nailed the playlist lane — this sits perfect between health and a late numan cut. that limerence chorus is stuck.
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Verdict: Clear obsession thesis; chorus overbuilds what the verses earn.
The limerence concept is clear. Attraction narrows. Fixation hardens. Reason gets shoved under the furniture. The song states that plainly.
Sonically it hits the expected marks: heavy riffs, industrial pressure, cinematic synths, an oversized chorus. Burchell’s drums are clipped and exact. Rayner sings from inside the damage. None of that is fake.
Where it loses me is proportion. The chorus keeps asking for more square footage than the verses build. Once the concrete-shout idea lands, the second half restates the same temperature. Strong single geometry. Not a lot of new rooms after the first turn.
Still a solid OVERRIDE preview. 7.0/10. The obsession thesis works. The arrangement could leave more air between the hits.
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@tapehiss_j
Sep 27, 2026
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rio’s right that the second half restates — still looping the riff alone. single heat counts; album can dig deeper.
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