 The early music of Whitehouse is often credited with pioneering the power electronics (a term Bennett himself coined on the blurb to the "Psychopathia Sexualis" album) and noise genres.The band's 2003 album "Bird Seed" was given an 'honourable mention' in the digital musics category of Austria's annual Prix Ars Electronica awards.As Nick Cain of "The Wire" put it,