For those of you who remember and appreciate the dawn of industrial rock, this album is a must have. As they always have, Ministry slams you with their blistering guitar licks, computer-assisted beats and Nihilistic imagery.
Despite sounding like a home-studio effort (which it is: the liner notes say,
Scissor Sisters score low points for originality, as every beat, bass line and harmony was snatched from the Boogie Nights soundtrack. But they score with their sense of humor, outlandish style and unabashed guts to combine glam, rock, disco and funk back to the radio waves.
The session is bursting with the late night flavor of a New Orleans Funk Summit showdown, even though most of the album was recorded in San Francisco.
Thirty minutes packed with elastic grooves and open ended spaces, tightly filled with the fiery driven keyboard work of Gwen Grimes played to precision.
Long before late 90
To many devoted fans of Widespread Panic, their first unplugged album to date,
The funk runs deep on the Motet
Somewhere between The Flaming Lips, a P.T. Anderson film, and a roadside evangelist with acid drenched Kool-Aid, lies The Polyphonic Spree. It
Ambulance LTD molds a bit of the Velvet Underground
