To celebrate today we have not one, but two all-nude reviews for you to consider.
One side of this record plays at 45, the other at 33. Side one features the title cut, an odd combination of bluesy, heavy metal mentality and a slight jazzy influence. A lot of the jazz flavour is provided by the use of an upright bass. Foetus’ vocals are somewhere between a sleazy Jim Dandy and a gravelliest Tom Waits, and oh does it sound slimy. Lines like “a woman’s place is on my face” are sure to endear Foetus to feminists everywhere. If side one is more “body” oriented, than side two is more directed to the brain, and is much more abstract and experimental. Here we have an instrumental suite entitled “Diabolus in Musica” which is based on the tritone (augmented fourth or diminished fifth). The tritone was banned in the medieval church because it was believed to summon Satan; those who were found to be using it were often tortured to death. This piece is at times almost industrial in its harshness, and at other moments conveys a kind of creeping slow menace.
Or;
…finally out after enormous delays, the Foetus All-Nude Revue is designed to strip yr clothes off yr bod and yr skin off yr bones. A swinging porn-epic that’s as brassily nap as Lydia’s long-ago work-out with Billy Ver Planck, this rec manifests an oink as sinister as anything Foetus’s ever done before. Like a roomful of shifty-eyed mofos eyeing yr tot in a paediatricians’ waiting room. Some nerds seem to prefer the older more-heavily-syntho-sound-Foetus, but I’ll take All-Nude any day. Its approximation of a big, big outfit makes me walk like a drunken cartoon hippo. And that’s okay.
Either way;
RECOMMENDED LISTENING CONDITIONS: BLACKNESS; OXYGEN AT LISTENERS DISCRETION; EXTREME STEREO OR HEADPHONES; LARGE VOLUME MANDATORY.
Ripped quite some time ago by some very nice person to MP3 @ 320kbps
The Foetus All-Nude Revue; Bedrock 12”
A. Bedrock
B1. Diabolus In Musica
B2. Shut
B3. Rattlesnake Insurance
B4. Bedrock Strip
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