The 4th International - "Destruction Of The Illusion Of Our Every Day" 8" Flexi 1983

Commie punk/core chimera from Japan. They heavily remind me of Gauze's style on the City Rockers comp LP ("slower" 1-2-beats and live-ish production) but without the City Rockers sized monetary "feel" (the very few times this flexi has shown up on Disbay, it's gone for TWO City Rockers). Likable enough for what it is and not what whackjobs say it should be...

Navicon Torture Technologies - "The Church Of Dead Girls" 2xCD 2002

An Alighierian tour through a sex-killer's necrotic psyche, a postnuclear realm where degenerated sigma wolves rape and mutilate...sometimes after death...whosoever stumbles into their lairs of disintegrating concrete and coagulated filth. WAAAITASEC, back that free candy van up...founder Lee Bartow once described it as an angst-blast about his love life in general!?!? There's no denying the ardor that fuels Lee's work, and The Church Of Dead Girls is probably the most visceral of his creations (it's definitely his most cohesively produced), but the only "love" I've ever felt from the discs is of homie smearing lipstick on the anus of a headless corpse before he makes out with it. The apex of edgelord krokodil, and you're just one plunger click away from its fatal final fix...


Lustmord & Robert Rich - "Stalker" CD 1995


That review actually resents me for composing it "on drugs" (weed) and conflating Brian Williams (Lustmord) with Graeme Revell because they were both in SPK (though Brian did roadie for Throbbing Gristle). I've got no real excuses, but neither will you if you don't click that link...