If You’re Gonna Get Down – Get Down And Pray
The Holland Dozier and Holland of Hardcore! Forget disease, forget the vermin serum, and
forget the wonderful wasted living on the sleaze line chic. Forget the ‘we all have to suffer in the war
on pop’ claims of the fanatics. With the
manic, drilling, stabbing sensurround of F.A.T. your fears are at an end. What a funny, misleading acronym to be
sure. Seldom has there been a record
more finely pared to the bone. In the
best, truest sense of the world FAT has a rock ‘n’ roll heart. There are no stated tinges of satisfaction on
this record – a full frontal assault on stamina and desire – just a head full
of crazed dreams, wild connections, explicit and determined fantasies. But even as he drenches himself in the style
and fury lost and found at various points during the last three decades (thrashing
the Memphis Flash, ‘Good Times’ rap mix splattered and tormented to submission)
FAT displays a mastery of studio technique that would put any number of
competitors, in any number of areas, to withering shame and envy. He has it all down in terms of echo, impact,
attack and overlay. Nothing is overplayed, everything is lethal, could be the
motto here.Source: New Musical Express 24 November 1984
Ripped from a well-loved/abused 12” single to stabbing sensurround MP3 @ 320kbps
Foetus Art Terrorism; Calamity Crush
A. Calamity Crush
B. Catastrophe Crunch
Remember pop pickers, both tracks appear in edited form on the Sink release.
Thanks for another Foetus Friday!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome ejh
DeleteThanks for all the Foetus, not sure when my first encounter with him was, either the Wash/Slog single, his Tube appearance or, most likely, his work with Marc & The Mambas. I remember buying everything that was available at the time of his, I do like the Wiseblood single too, cracking tune that
ReplyDeleteWash/Slog was my introduction. If you haven't checked already (I know you have Stevo, but just in case "others" haven't) Wiseblood is lurking deep in the folds of this blog.
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