Customer Reviews

Private/Public

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From start to finish, Private/Public is totally different from anything else you will hear that's come out recently. If you are a fan of early Neubauten, Swans, etc., you will value this record and put it high up on your stack of cds. Flux is easily one of the best I feel lucky enough to have discovered in the past five years...

This is a classic example of a band that does not get the attention deserved. If you happen to stumble onto this page you are probably looking for something different. Private/Public is uniquely different without alienating your average listener. Their primal electrified beats are magnetic and the vocals border on chaotic but well placed. It has captured the attention of everybody that I have played it for. Unless you are a New Yorker, you will have to pick this up here or at young god records because, unfortunately, you will not find it at you local record store.

Mr. Gira, His is a history to follow and understand. Too much history to offer in this review. To see them live is beyond compare.

I haven't been able to stop listening to this one, just an amazing piece of work.

I purchased this cd based on their live performance I saw at Mabel Peabody's Denton, TX. There Live show was unbelievable it was the only thing I could think about for months after the show. I would of bought the cd at the show but I didn't bring any extra cash. The drummer was dead on that night she drove that ship into uncharted territory it was a wild ride. The pulse coming from her base drum was in perfect time and rumbled the whole room. It was as if GOD and SATIN were at battle right there in the room. The rest of the band followed suit and road that wave of pulses from her drum kit. Tristan the devil himself lead vocalist and keyboardist was their master driving his chariot whipping his horses (the band) to go faster. Their performance was on the edge it was has if one wrong move the show could come crashing down into violent bloody brawl. The energy coming off the room was the same. However, when I purchased the cd after a 3-month search I was greatly disappointed. The energy was gone from the cd that I got from the live show now it is just watered down noise that I so hardly appreciated at the club.

Flux Information Sciences, a four-piece band out of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is changing the rules of music. In the same sense that "Rite of Spring" changed the course of 20th century music, Flux represents a departure with popular music that will shape the direction of sound in the new millennium. To compare their sound to any other would be reductive. Suffice it to say, they are furious yet funny, savagely sarcastic and just plain brilliant. Musical catharsis. There is so much to hear in the Private/Public... a hundred hearings wouldn't cover it all. Michael Gira's able production has brought out the best from the band here, though clearly he had a lot to work with to start off. Above all, Flux says more with fewer words than any rock ensemble ever. Words become merely another structural component in their highly-ordered brand of chaos. And by the time that you are done listening to Private/Public, you will have performed all of your bodily functions and satisfied all of your animal drives.