Foetus "Love" (Birdman)
By Trey Perkins
Monday. Jun 13, 2:01 AM
Ambient music for munging.

Break out the leather corsets, the goat’s blood, the human flesh, and other dark new age-y goth bullshit commodities. You’ll need a pair of high boots, a bullshit ankh, and some kind of piercing, weird assymetrical haircuts, and did I mention goat’s blood? Foetus, a.k.a J.G. Thirwell, has released a new album entitled Love, apparently the latest in a collection of albums with four letter titles. J.G. Thirwell has been releasing albums since 1981, and has teamed up with NIN, White Zombie, and Red Hot Chili Peppers to name a few. Love compiles snarling vocals, a harpsichord, orchestral sounds, and lurking drums to produce an overall freaked out effect. Dark and brooding, this album would be perfect for people who like to drink blood, stab goats, wear altar robes, and burn small children. The album’s opener “(Not Adam)” starts of into a running gallop beat with accompanying strings. “Aladdin Reverse” explodes into a cacophonous orchestral frenzy during the chorus, while Foetus’ vocals growl away. Indeed, his voice sounds as though it slides right out of his abdomen and spews forth from his mouth. In sum, the tracks are well arranged, complex in their own right, and excruciatingly dark. It’s worth noting how full the album sounds.

If there was one commandment for this album, it was to use the hell out of the harpsichord, which is fine. No one, outside of Bach and 19th century Vampires, uses harpsichord as much as Foetus does. Not to mention the fact that crunchy, heavy guitars round out the sound. One listen to this album and I was ready to go dig up Terri Schiavo’s dead corpse and mung the crap out of it, and I don’t even like this dark shit.
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Trey Perkins

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