Customer Reviews

Thaw

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Part of JGT's ongoing Picasso-Matisse style battle with Nick Cave, you see, the mercy seat was more commercial, more accessible, so JGT says to himself, " I can do that".
Hence, we have 'Thaw', which goes in my "best album of career" drawer, not one bad song or wasted moment to be found, and I've tried looking everywhere.
Great to play at office parties, Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Also a great repellant for the "I love trent reznor and ministry, look at my wounds, they are beautiful" type scum that have claimed our music.
Buy it or don't, I dont care. p.s. this is one release where the CD version sounds as good as the vinyl.

Nail is usually hailed as Jim Foetus Thirlwell's masterpiece, but Thaw is even better imho. On Nail ugly drum machines sometimes dissipate the tension. Thaw is more organic and more manic. Nail is calculated. Thaw is a magnificantly horrible accident.

this is my favorite of thirlwell's works. it is pure, unadulterated, evil, white-trash rage. it is the dark side of the human soul laid bare, and the music in a style that sounds like demented show-tunes. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.......but not for the faint of heart. Its also incredibly politcally incorrect, so be warned.

This is absoolutely the most jarring of any Foetus album yet. The music makes your ribs crack not only because of the noisy, thickly composed screaming metal-banging music, but also the immediate juxtaposition of wild noise & some of Thirlwell's quintissentially Thirlwell modern classical pieces. There's also a blues song (with very poetic lyrics, I might add as a well-read poet), & some tabla drumming. This crazy experimental music can be pretty catchy, too, if you ask me -- especially the 4th & 5th songs. Or anyways. I mean. I like those songs a lot. It's also pretty incredible that Thaw is so radically different as a whole from the Foetus album that preceeded it: Nail, also wonderful music. Between them he did a Wiseblood album, Dirtdish, which has a lot of pulsing static white noise.

I give this album a high rating, but I admit I got rid of my copy. I simply found it too disturbing to ever listen to! Still, as a completely unadulterated musical display of violence and hatred, it's pretty damn impressive.

gripping. mexican-death-deserts and word-salad-storms. sublime.

let no one--particularly no nail, nine inches or no inches--stand before foetus, the rightful recipient to the throne of musical malcontent.

for a full five stars, see foetus' own "nail." make no mistake, muchachas.

"Don't Hide It Provide It" is the nastiest piece of music I own, and it's brilliant. I hounded the DJ at a club I used to frequent to play this, and when he finally did I danced. Exuberantly.
"A Prayer For My Death" is extremely well written (it's even better live on "RIFE").
Probably the last great Foetus recording made.