Towards Thee Infinite Beat
Artist: Psychic TV

Although it tends toward unvarying sampladelic acid-house, Towards Thee Infinite Beat is a good place to start for Psychic TV's dance phase. ~ John Dougan, All Music Guide Read More

T.V. Sky
Artist: Young Gods
Community Score: 10.00

In a conscious shift of aesthetics, the very European Gods turned their eyes on America with the band's fourth album, producing its most 'rock' record to date, a consistently strong smash. Opening with "Our House," it all seems (powerful) business as usual - odd sonic loops, rhythm patterns suddenly exploding into mass drum/riff combinations.... Read More

Pubic Fruit
Artist: Curve
Community Score: 8.90

Pubic Fruit is not a proper follow-up to Curve's debut full-length, but, instead, it gathers together three of the band's earlier E.P. releases which had only been released in the U.K. and adds the previously unavailable 12" version of "Fait Accompli." Despite the album being a compilation of sorts, it holds together quite nicely and provides a... Read More

Pure
Artist: Godflesh
Community Score: 8.00

For Godflesh's second formal album, a new member was recruited to replace Paul Neville (though in an odd twist he appears on the first three minutes of "Love, Hate (Slugbaiting)," in fact a live sample of the old band he, Broadrick and Green used to be in, the Fall of Because). The choice was an inspired one - Robert Hampson of Loop, then... Read More

Thirteen Masks
Artist: Jarboe

Jarboe's first solo release outside of the Swans/Skin family tree is an admirably varied effort recorded at a variety of different sessions. Thirteen Masks often explores a number of styles not commonly seen in the work of Jarboe's regular bands, from nightclub jazz to modern dancefloor moves, while at the same time demonstrating the dark appeal... Read More

Dissident
Artist: Deadline

As a rule, it's a bad idea for a band to have more than one bass player. Three bass players, under normal circumstances, would be completely out of the question. But when the three are Bill Laswell, Jonas Hellborg and Bootsy Collins, well...at least you need to give a listen. And in this case, the sound of common sense being thrown out... Read More

Consumer Revolt
Artist: Cop Shoot Cop
Community Score: 5.00

Employing two basses and no guitar, Cop Shoot Cop's debut album proper (following the 1988 EP Headkick Facsimile) sets out the band's agenda - an overpowering wash of staccato riffs and obtuse samples married to harrowing narratives. Though placing them amid the burgeoning industrial music scene, Cop Shoot Cop's aesthetic shares something with... Read More

Push
Artist: Gruntruck
Community Score: 10.00

On Push, Gruntruck's second album, the band discards some of its excessive Soundgarden influences and finds its own musical identity. Because of their vicious, sometimes atonal guitar riffage and sparing use of melody, the album only starts sinking in after numerous plays, but as is often the case in such situations, the listeners are ultimately... Read More

Peng!
Artist: Stereolab
Community Score: 7.28

With its full-length debut Peng!, Stereolab continued to develop a unique approach to experimental pop music, building on the seriously playful mix of Krautrock, dream pop, and lounge forged on the band's early singles. The album's first three tracks present the basic kinds of songs that the band would explore in the future: the tense, brooding... Read More