Monday, July 2, 2018

#2953 Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report

As exciting as confrontational art-punk gets. Side one is seven songs with two names and not one note of commonality, all festering electronic noise and nightmare imagery, all strangely listenable, even the version of Maggot Death that's just a minute of screaming at the audience. This is secretly one of the great live albums of all time -- putting you viscerally in the scene in a tidy 19 minutes.

Side 2 is an endless sound collage, packed with synthesized inventions and atmospheric menace, a timelapse of the collapse, wildly ahead of its time.

There were some brilliant fuckers striking the set on the 70s, few records convey the destruction so viscerally 4/5

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