Album · Add N To (X)
Avant Hard by Add N To (X)
Avant Hard is an album by Add N To (X), released in 1999. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Metal Fingers In My Body”, on 1 list with a best position of #37.
Avant Hard, the third album from London's Add N to (X), came out on Mute in 1999, and it's a gleefully perverse slab of experimental electronic music, the kind that sounds as if it was bolted together in a shed out of spare parts and bad intentions. Dean Honer produced, and the lineup of Barry 7, Ann Shenton and Steven Claydon (who had stepped in for Andrew Aveling) treats its machines less like instruments than like unruly animals that might bite.
It also slipped into the mainstream by the side door. "Metal Fingers in My Body", which came with an animated video about a woman and a robot getting very intimate, ended up soundtracking a UK digital TV ad built around skateboarder Danny Way's tricks, while "Barry 7's Contraption" backed a Chris Cunningham-directed commercial for Orange and turned up again and again on the TV show Banzai.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Avant Hard on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metal Fingers In My Body | 1 | #37 | – | 1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.