Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3)
“The song consists of a brutally repetitive loop, which fades in and fades out but never changes, its clipped, harsh snare defining the cyclic turnover of some vast machine. Gen is in lager lout mode. Dedicated listeners may detect a few additional elements in the mix: tiny synth spritzes and an offset tremoloed noise flare out of the right speaker, and, over the course of the song, shivering synths and guitar textures on top gradually secrete their way into the proceedings. But these frills mus...t fight their way through the din of the grinding, mechanical rhythm and an attention-seeking vocal. Sounding alternately masculine and campily feminine, but in either case resolutely, intentionally “idiotic,” Gen jumps up and down octaves, howling through delay, blaring like someone who is slightly deaf. Like P.i.L.’s “Fodderstompf” or the crude glam-stomp-alongs of Slade, TG create not so much a song as an alienating trudge in rote lockstep; the vocal functions like a the drill sergeant, molding the group.MoreLess
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