I reckon Manson's backed off trying to shock anyone anymore. Could he at this point? Would it win any new fans? What would be the utility? He's just kicking out the kind of noisy, distantly-blues-related noise that he's into, cranking riffs through an Albini-puncher, an Atticus-fuzzer, raging against Christianity in terms we're mostly numbed to.
I'm actually pretty into the racket, but it's hard to escape the staleness of the shtick. Actual song titles:
- KILL4ME
- JE$u$ CRI$I$
- WE KNOW WHERE YOU FUCKING LIVE
- SAY10
SAY10. SAY TEN. SAYTEN. SATAN. GET IT. Actual repeated lines from that song include "I say God. And you say Say Ten" and "Cocaine and Abel...". Ok, ok we all got shit doodled in the margins of sprial notebooks. This is totally passable late-industrial polished-not-polished racket, but lyrically it feels phoned in, bordering on self-parody. My decade-long quest to figure out if Manson is a talented provocateur or a total fucking hack continues 3.5/5
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