Pigface: A New High in Low
Disc 1:
- Radio Bagpipe
- Kiss King (high high high)
- Burundi
- Bring Unto Me
- More
- Nutopia
- Methylated
- Breathalised
- Crystalised
- Synthesised
- Immortalised
- Aboriginal
- Metal Tangerine
- First Taken Third Found
- Warzone
- You Know/You Know/You Know
Disc 2:
- The Howler: An English Breakfast (Chapter 1, Part 1)
- Train
- The Howler: An English Breakfast (Chapter 1, Part 2)
Pigface return with their first new full length album in almost two years, and
I'm sad to say that most steadfast Pigface fans will be sorely disappointed.
Gone are the massive collaborations that end up in a dizzying miasma of guitars
and digitally overproduced tracks. Instead, on "A New High in Low", Martin
Atkins has chosen to stress the musical intricacies of low fidelity recording
with few musicians contributing to each track. Organic instrument are stressed
over their more conventional digital counterparts on almost every track. Sitars,
didgeridoo, drums, and other more traditional instruments play an almost
integral role on every track. While a few keyboards, a sampler, and a mellotron
are used on a handful of tracks, they are used more as filler than as the core
of the music. As a result this new album has much more the tribal feel that I
think Martin Atkins has always wanted to bring to Pigface. However, fans of the
more electronic thrash oriented Pigface of old are going to definitely feel a
bit cheated with this release.
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