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Pigface is back with a vengance, and in the midst of an incredible tour with TKK and Zeromancer: a must see show for the industrialites among us. This CD combines the disco, beat-driven accessibility of FOOK with the bizarre middle-eastern-sounding instrumentation that was prevalent on A New Low In High/A New High In Low. There is not one single track on this CD that isn't worthy and relatively inventive at the same time. Definitely no ground-breaking work of epic genius, but certainly a fantastic CD. The perfect CD to copy and give to a friend who says "what is pigface?" and, lacking the words to accurately capture the depth and majesty of Martin's Industrialized Travelling Willburies, the CD says it all. And hopefully your friend will get hooked and will buy a ton of their past work so Martin et al can eat and we can keep soaking up his delicately aggressive aural sculptures.

Pigface is probably the best band I have ever heard/seen. There live shows are full of energy and never a disappointment. I lost this CD...and needed to get another copy!

i don't know... pigface is the best idea i've ever heard of, as far as music is concerned, and if you see them live you're not likely to ever forget it, but this album is nowhere near as good as Gub or Fook. i think it might be the very idea behind Pigface that keeps them stagnant. by that i mean to say that most bands evolve and grow to learn from each other as they stay together and play together for long periods of time, whereas in the case of pigface, martin atkins is (i think) the only member who has been on every release. this results in having to start over as a fresh band with almost every album. neat idea, but it's really quite hit and miss, because i doubt even atkins himself knows what is going to come out of a pigface recording session. in any case, this is a fairly solid album compared to "a new high in low", but at the same time the really good songs on this album don't even compare to the really good songs on "a new high".

the biggest disappointment is that there is almost NONE of the reckless abandon and sheer passion for experimentation that permeated the first three pigface albums.

if you're a pigface fan, you'll get this album somehow.. i know you will... just like i did... but i'm hoping some of you old-school fans will read this and not have your expectations too high. you might get more out of it if you don't.

With a cool cast of many,this is by far Pigface's best ! Not including remixes. Its heavy ,dancie,(?),and even in a Pigface way trancie .

Over the years, Pigface incarnations have included Trent Resnor, Paul Barker, Danny Carey, Nivek Ogre, Celine Dion, Patsy Cline, John Wayne, and Flipper to name a few. As always, this incarnation goes off in a new direction. This one may not carry the star power but is nonetheless as good if not better than past albums. I am predicting a varied repose to this one because songs like "Mind Your Own Business" and "Sweetmeat" are a bit further from the expected. I had trouble finding it at my local music store so you might have to pick it up here or at invisiblerecords.

I'm an old school Pigface fan. It kinda sucks, but I guess we need to realize there will never be another FOOK, Welcome to Mexico, Gub, Washing Machinemouth, etc.

They've put out some good stuff, but really, nothing has been up to par since Notes, IMO. I do, however, enjoy much of the new stuff. It could just be a rut, the same rut that the rest of industrial seems to be in. It peaked in the early to mid 90s and had nowhere to go. So, at least Pigface it experimenting and seemingly trying to get out of it.

I just wonder if Atkins has the right mix of people still. I want Ogre back, get him working the tape decks again.

well, I bought this album because I heard the song "closer to heaven" online, which features lacey connor from Nocturne and groovie mann from My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. I was enticed by the rare pleasure of hearing two of my favorite bands brought together in a damn good song to buy the rest of the album. Well, although there are a couple tracks that might justify a couple listens, this is not a stellar album. Not impressed with Pigface overall, but maybe I should check out something else, as this isn't exactly their magnus opus. anyway, if anyone's a fan of closer to heaven, I recommend checking out anything by TKK or paradise wasted by Nocturne. unlike this album, those guys never disappoint!

I've been waiting for this cd to come out forever and I was definitely not disappointed by it when it did. This album ...couldn't have come at a better time. With the exception of QOTSA, there is very little to listen to. I hope this gets to major radio and bounces out some the garbage that is on right now.

I just found it to be a beating a dead horse kind of thing. The themes have just been over done,and it seems like noise for the sake of noise now. There were highlights,Lacey being one, But all in all I'm glad I got it used.
The same things that made Pigface the amazing idea it used to be are now what seems to be killing it. Too much emphasis in creating outside the norm and it becomes all about that,and not what is being felt and conveyed in the music.
Just MHO.
Nick

I really liked:

Mind Your Own Business
Insect Suspect
Du Liebst Mich Nicht, Ich Libe' Dich Nicht
Miss Sway Action
Binary Stream
The Loneliest Sound I've Ever Heard

The rest of the album reminded me too much of main stream colledge radio. So I can give half this album a 3 star since only half of it reminded me of Gub, Fook, A New, and Notes. The other half if for sub-urban posers. There is some awsome poetry on this one that seems to go hand in hand with A New High In Low's My Generation which of course CAN NOT be missed. It's been a year since I bought the album, I used to hate it, and now I'm to this point. I give it 3 stars because only half of it rox.

What Atkin needs to do is bring in cEvin Key (again), Ohgr, Genesis P. Orridge, Mark Spybey, Edward Kaspell, Brian Eno, Chris and Cosey, DJ Spooky, Trent Reznor, Jello Biafra, Al Jourgenson,and hell even Maralyn Manson (since he ripped off the scene it is pay repects time), Roger Waters, the guys from King Krimson, Kraftwerk ect. Then compile something truely new an unique. I think Atkins is loosing his vision, I'm still bitter with him and Mark Walk for bieing involved with Skinny Puppy The Process. No need to attack cEvin Key there, and try to interfere with cEvin's creation.

Anyhow, I hope they get better than this...