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| 4.0 excellent | DIRTYKUNSTVIDEO | October 5th 19 |
The very notion that any mode of genuinely extreme music could percolate without the celebratory pandemonium generated by the gleefully seditious, and magnificently sordid, Throbbing Gristle is not only implausible; it’s nigh-on impossible. Excluding the creepy Dadaism of The Residents, the ‘70s produced nothing to rival the quixotic and profoundly nightmarish clamour of TG’s atonal debut; with their impenetrable, libidinous ejaculations of corrosive ennui and diabolic kraftwerkian rancour, they inculcated a seething, industrial affront to popular culture; baiting audiences with icy, mechanoid barbarianism that remains as perversely enigmatic today as when originally conceived. Part two the endless not ululates downer, intestinal gurglings, leaking tainted folds of vocal dementia; a murky morass of exhilarating obfuscation, gradually sublimating the listener’s id beneath a clotted, calamitous shroud of despondency. For over two decades they have excelled at ruthlessly conjoining disparate genre’s; brutally dislocating conventional musical motifs, and lovingly reassembling their derisive parody of pop music. That so much of Throbbing Gristle’s inspirational absurdity still retains the power to unnerve, is arguably due to their singular genius of unearthing malefic oscillations, mimicking the covert, quivering squelch of oozing human viscera. Part two the endless not is both eerie and euphoric, transparent and infuriatingly cryptic, diseased and vigorous; this is painfully corporeal music, using not so much scales as living cells of sound which they corrupt and metastasize into shrieking gobs of passion; similar to the bravura way both David Lynch and Werner Herzog deify dysfunction, TG also author mesmeric parables around the extraordinary and defiantly prosaic nature of mankind. Much of part two the endless not plays out like a potent laudanum reverie, engorged with febrile convulsions of naked desire; where Genesis P-Orridge’s sibilant tones offer plaintive, breathy non sequiturs over unctuous, grimy nodes of electronic discord. Incredibly, their beauteous ‘Rabbit Snare’ with its hazy, opiated, jazz inflections and neo-noir allusions is merely one incandescent composition within this fleshy kaleidoscope of galvanizing auditory splendour.
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| 0.0 | ThroneOfAgony | June 7th 12 |
For a Throbbing Gristle album, this one is by far their most accessible and friendly. It's
open to any newcomer, one who is interested in opening up their music further, and for one
who wants to add onto their collection. The song, 'After the Fall' is beautifully haunting,
and is probably my favorite Throbbing Gristle song of all time, along with Convincing
People. I highly recommend this one, because it is a true beauty
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| 4.0 excellent | DadKungFu EMERITUS | September 1st 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Yep321 | October 8th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | March 15th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Tobmast | October 4th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | qyxxxyq | April 9th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | wg98 | September 7th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | June 4th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | fuzzbutt | December 29th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sithese | February 17th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | bgf97 | November 13th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | kitsch | January 15th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Skyler | April 11th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Foaming | February 12th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Blade86 | October 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | IAJP | July 19th 10 |
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