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Agoraphobic Nosebleed, "PCP Torpedo/ANBRX"
This double CD set collects songs previously only available on 6" vinyl and adds a second disc of remixes to sweeten the deal. The level of aggression here is almost ridiculous, with every aspect of the music overflowing with testosterone. If anything, this collection is like aural steroids, with any form of subtlety to be avoided at all costs.
Each song has generically distorted guitars, drums that sound like machine guns peppering a toy kit, and ridiculously garbled and hopelessly incomprehensible vocals, which is more or less what I expected from titles like, "Thinning the Herd," "Clorox Bong (Identity Picnic)," and "Crash Course to Maximum Nowhere." Making it worse, or maybe better, is that the songs are more like snippets, with one as short as eleven seconds and none much longer than a minute. With ten songs clocking in at about eight minutes total, at least the assault is brief.
Somewhat surprising, however, are the fourteen remixes included on the second disc. Most of them are just obnoxious, but there are a few that take the minimal source material and manage to stretch and mold it into something unique, with Vinda Obmana’s "Three Ring Inferno Mix" being my favorite of these. Also enjoyable were Merzbow’s "Agorzbow Merzbleed Mix," in what I consider more or less typical of his style, and Justin Broadrick’s "Flesh of Jesu Mix," which to me actually sounds closer to his Godflesh material than his more recent incarnation. I’m a little puzzled why the original songs and the remixes are on two separate discs since everything fits easily onto one, but that’s ultimately irrelevant. Either way, the entertainment I got from this collection probably wasn’t intentional.
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